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The Pretenders - "2000 Miles" (1983) In 1983, the British band fronted by an American woman had a big Christmas hit with this. In 2022, Chrissie Hynde, now 74, applied for, and became, British. The song is simply about a woman missing a man at Christmas. Chrissie has said of the band's...

You don't have to name them after naval heroes. You just give them an intimidating-sounding or cool name. We have HMS Achilles being built as part of the Astute-class submarines.. That's a cooler name than, say, Gerald R. Ford. And we will have the four Dreadnought-class submarines - HMS...

This comes after a Russian ship beamed lasers at an RAF plane. The British have called the situation "deeply dangerous." It seems as though the Russians are testing the British and the British have said: 'We see you. We know what you are doing. And we are ready." The Russians are prodding the...

The Royal Navy ship HMS Severn forced the Russian ships out of British waters to the coast of northern France where NATO allies took over Two Russian warships were intercepted in the English Channel by the Royal Navy, the British Ministry of Defence has revealed. HMS Severn – a Royal Navy...

Because that's not scary and hard. If an enemy comes up against a ship named Agamemnon they're most likely to think "Nah, we'd best not take it on."

Because the British are geniuses at naming their warships. Even the names sound hard and scary. The Americans, for example, have USS Gerald R. Ford. Boring. The British have HMS Agamemnon. The first Royal Navy HMS Agamemnon was Nelson's favourite ship. So it's an apt name for the Royal Navy's...

King Charles III - Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces - has launched the newest Royal Navy warship into service. At Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, His Majesty launched HMS Agamemnon, the sixth of seven of the Royal Navy's powerful and hi-tech Astute-class nuclear...

Drone footage shows British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales and British destroyer HMS Dauntless in the Bay of Naples off southern Italy. The two are amongst the most powerful warships in the world. The Prince of Wales can carry up to 65 aircraft of varying types and is currently bristling...

Britain arms her ally Ukraine to the teeth Britain gifts 99 AS-90 howitzers to Ukraine As well as a Terrahawk drone killer, it's also been revealed - through a Freedom of Information request from a British citizen - that Britain has given all 99 of her remaining AS-90 self-propelled...

Ukraine’s air defences just got a major boost with the deployment of Britain's Terrahawk Paladin, a cutting-edge counter-drone and short-range air defence system. Now operational with Ukraine's 156th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, the Paladin combines mobility, AI-powered targetting and a 30mm...

Good Charlotte - "Fairytale of New York" (2025) Hailing from Waldorf, Maryland, the rockers have covered the massive 1987 Christmas hit by British band The Pogues...

The Scaffold - "Lily the Pink" (1968) The Scaffold were a British comedy band consisting of Roger McGough - a poet and children's author I was a fan of as a kid - comedian and entertainer John Gorman, who co-presented the children's show "Tiswas" from 1978 to 1981, and musician and photographer...

Jona Lewie - "Stop The Cavalry" (1980) The Southampton singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist scored a UK Christmas No3 hit with this emotional song about a young British soldier who, understandably, wanted to leave the bitter cold of his trench and enemy shellfire to spend Christmas with...

The Pogues - "Fairytale of New York" (1987) It's that time of year and I'm going to have to do it again. In 1987 - the year Margaret Thatcher won a third consecutive British General Election and Coventry City won the FA Cup - the London Celtic punk rockers teamed up with the London songstress...

I don't drink much rum - I'm more of a beer man - but I'm quite partial to a few glasses of Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum on these bone-chillingly cold British winter nights. It certainly helps to warm me up after spending hours working in a freezing cold warehouse. A few years ago I found an old...

The Rasmus - "Banksy" (2025) The new single from the Finnish rockers which pays tribute to the anonymous British street artist known only as Banksy. Banksy's works have been inspirations for the band...

Have you got any of that rum left? If so, send me some.

Alestorm - "Hyperion Omniriff" (2025) The new single from the Scottish pirate rockers...

Since cementing his place in rock's hall of fame, for his role as lead guitarist and songwriter in one of Britain’s biggest ever bands, Queen, Sir Brian May has also completed a PhD in astrophysics. And he has now helped put together what's being described as the first ever book to explore the...

CONCACAF 2026 World Cup qualifier Jamaica 0-0 Curaçao Independence Stadium, Kingston Curaçao, with a population of only 156,000, has become the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup, after a 0-0 draw with Jamaica. Curaçao, an island in the Caribbean, isn't even a sovereign...