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Oh dear. Over the weekend, the Guardian ran an editorial on the EU referendum entitled ‘this campaign must show more respect for both facts and voters’. However, the left-wing rag didn't practise what it preached... The Guardian fails to practise what it preaches in the EU debate...

Roman tablets discovered during an excavation in London include the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain, archaeologists have revealed. The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) said it had deciphered a document, from 8 January AD 57, found at the dig at Bloomberg's new...

The latest EU referendum poll indicates that voters have swung considerably towards backing Brexit. 52 per cent of people surveyed said they were planning on voting for Britain to leave the European Union, compared to 48 per cent who are voting in... Coffee House Majority of...

The centenary of the biggest naval engagement of World War One is being marked by commemorative events. A service at St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney will pay tribute to the 8,648 sailors who died during the Battle of Jutland. A service of remembrance will also take place on board HMS Duncan at...

Hundreds of skeletons found under a Cambridge University college could help researchers map the effect of the Black Death on a medieval town's population. More than 400 complete skeletons were discovered during work on St John's College between 2010 to 2012. The remains, dating from the 13th...

More resources are needed to stop migrants trying to reach the UK on makeshift boats, or lives will be lost, an ex-border force inspector has said. A group of 20 people - including 18 Albanian migrants and two children - were rescued from an inflatable boat off the coast of Kent on...

If you look back through some of the older threads in this sports section of the forum then you will see one from exactly two years ago reporting on the fact that Real Madrid had won the Champions League for a record tenth time. But now, they have won Europe's - and the world's - most...

Do the Eurocrats fear Britain will be a dreadful failure outside the EU? No. It is because they fear that we will be a dramatic success, and in so doing encourage other EU members to follow us out. That is oddly inconsistent with the claims of disaster put about by the Remain team. So what...

From famed warriors to ruthless female settlers, Gareth Williams from the British Museum rounds up eight top Vikings… 8 Vikings you should know about...

Choppers, believed to be from the SAS, have put on an extraordinary show of force over the skies of London in their top-of-the-range new anti-terror helicopters. Elite forces were spotted flying over landmarks such as Big Ben, the Shard and the London Eye, during an apparent training...

With only two months until the Rio Olympics, Brazil’s woes continue, with a minister in the interim government being forced to resign after being accused of plotting to stop the country's national corruption probe. It is not just president Dilma Rousseff being investigated, of course; a full...

A cookbook written in 1683 advises single women that the key to finding a man is 'the advice of sober friends', 'two ounces of the feare of God' and 'two ounces of consideration'. The book, written by bride-to-be Margaret Savile who was around 15 years old when she penned it, has been...

The core assumption of the anti-Brexit economists is that leaving would erect damaging barriers to trade; the pro-Brexit side must take on and demolish these arguments. The good news is that it’s quite easy to do so. The Leave campaign’s long-term aim is to break away completely from the...

The Royal Navy is investigating claims the wreckage of a British submarine lost during World War Two has been discovered off the coast of Sardinia. An Italian diver says he discovered the vessel, known as HMS P311, last weekend at a depth of 260 feet. The submarine was last seen in...

From bloody battles and brutal raids to epic seafaring adventures, here are 8 dates from Viking history you need to know… 8 key Viking dates you need to know From bloody battles and brutal raids to epic seafaring adventures, we bring you 8 dates from Viking history you need to know… Monday...

The Black Death was one of the most destructive epidemics in history, estimated to have claimed the lives of up to 200 million people across Europe between 1346 and 1353. But exactly how the plague decimated individual towns and villages has been relatively poorly understood. A new study...

It is proper English. I'm not speaking Gallifreyan. A pasty is a baked pastry with a hot, savoury filling. You can get traditional Cornish pasties with their unique shape and crimped edge with a filling of meat and vegetables and you get rectangular or square shaped pasties with a whole variety...

You need to start eating more healthily, my lad. Get a few cheese and onion pasties down your neck. You can get two pasties, each of any flavour, for a quid at the Poundbakery.

The Amazon game Burger Shop, where you have to make cheeseburgers and fries and drinks etc for customers as quickly as possible using a special machine which you build from the blueprints that you mysteriously receive in the mail, is quite good.

The Spectator's Rod Liddle is being put on trial by the Labour Party for thought crime - for daring to suggest that any Muslim, anywhere, could be accused of anti-Semitism... Rod Liddle: Labour’s putting me on trial for thought crime Now I have a chance to apologise for daring to...