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The Daily Mail's Quentin Letts looks at some of Britain's most famous advertisements from yesteryear and asks: "If these adverts were made today, would the Politically Correct Brigade ban them? Holy Hovis! As the 'Go to work on an egg' ad is banned what would quangocrats say about these ads...

We'd have more power in EU if it wasn't for the Nazis," says Polish Prime Minister We'd have more power in EU if Germans hadn't 'reduced our population' in World War II, says Polish PM 21st June 2007 Daily Mail EU President Jose Manuel Barroso meets Polish prime minister Jaroslaw...

If Pakistan is so angry, give back our aid By Andrew Marr 20/06/2007 The telegraph Pakistanis have every right to voice their anger at the award of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie. Equally, the rest of us have every right to express our anger at the deeply offensive response of...

Bevin Boys finally rewarded for their wartime graft in coal mines 20th June 2007 Daily Mail A long-running campaign for official recognition of the war effort of the so-called Bevin Boys has come to fruition as Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the creation of a special commemorative...

Student restores rare Jolly Roger pirate flag to former glory 20th June 2007 Daily Mail A rare 18th century pirate flag has been restored to its former glory. The crudely-stitched Jolly Roger was captured in battle on the Barbary Coast of North Africa in 1780 by Lieutenant Richard Curry...

This year's Glastonbury Rock Festval will probably be the largest ever. It is the world's largest greenfield rock festival - and is notorious for become a mudbath during inclement weather. There will be around 178,000 festival-goers attending this year's event. This year's acts include The...

The Queen is a huge fan of horse racing. Now, for the first time, you can actually join her in the Royal Box at Royal Ascot and have a five course meal with lobster thermidor and all-day champagne - though it will cost you £740 (US$1480). Meanwhile, as usual at Royal Ascot, the ladies...

Britain is being hit by severe lightning, floods and tornadoes. Tornadoes are nothing new in this country - Britain suffers more of them per square mile than any other country in the world though, thankfully, they are relatively small. Lightning, twisters and floods bring chaos to Britain...

Madeline McCann's father is a victim of London's very high crime rate, just an HOUR after he arrived in the city... Madeleine's father robbed of daughter's photos during UK trip by TOM KELLY, in Praia da Luz 20th June 2007 Daily Mail Madeleine McCann's father was left distraught after...

Islamic extremists yesterday placed an £80,000 award to execute British novelist Sir Salman Rushdie after the Queen knighted him. Despite being brought up as a Muslim, his 1989 book The Satanic Verses attacked many areas of the religion. He had to have bodyguards, paid for by the British...

Britain killed Rasputin, claims Russian film By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow 19/06/2007 The Telegraph Grigori Rasputin, the infamous Siberian mystic, was murdered as part of a British Government plot to depose Tsar Nicholas II and replace him with a malleable Anglophile bisexual, a major...

Barclays could drop eagle logo because of 'Nazi connotations' 19th June 2007 Daily Mail The eagle logo used by British bank Barclays is under threat today amid fears that its Nazi connotations could offend customers of its Dutch takeover target. The banking giant has informally agreed...

Britain is the world centre for crop circles, with more crop circles appearing in the county of Wiltshire alone each year than in almost the rest of the world put together. This season's spate of crop circles has started off with an unusual design, right next to the chalk White Horse on a...

British comedian Bernard Manning, from Manchester, was one of the most politically incorrect comedians of all time. His jokes included those about mothers-in-law, women, homosexuals and black people. He died yesterday, aged 76. Bernard Manning: The man they couldn't gag 19th June 2007 Daily...

English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head as he sat under a tree (reputedly somewhere at Cambridge University and severeal trees there have been put forward as the tree's descendant), died in 1727. He predicted that the world will end in 2060...

Hey, Germany and Angela Merkel. I hate to disappoint you, but the British (except maybe Tony Blair) believe in democracy and that is why Britain, when Gordon Brown is Prime Minister, WILL hold a referendum on the Eu Constitution? And you know what that means? Yep, the British are sure to vote...

If the Pakistanis don't behave themselves them I'm afraid the British will have to re-colonise them and civilise them once more, just as they did during the days of Empire when Pakistan was part of India. They took part in something they love doing - burning effigies. These were effigies of...

36 killed in Iraq gun battle with British troops 18th June 2007 Daily Mail British troops have been caught up in a fierce battle with Shia militiamen in Iraq. 36 people were killed, but there were probably no British fatalities. As many as 36 people were killed in a fierce battle...

The BBC is being accused of being too Left-Wing. Its Left-Wing views include being anti-American, anti-Christian, pro-Irish Republican, anti-countryside, anti-British history, for minority rights including gay rights, pro State and State spending, anti-market, anti-capitalism, anti-big business...

A man who stole a 328 year old statue wrote to a ceramics expert asking him to value it for him (it's worth £160,000)....... I stole this statue, will you value it for me? 15th June 2007 Daily Mail An "idiotic" thief who stole a 17th century porcelain figurine of national importance was...