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    Supreme Court 'hasn't got time' to block No-Deal Brexit

    Remainers hoping to block a No Deal Brexit in the courts have been told they have run out of time. With just 81 days until the UK is set to leave the European Union on October 31...
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    New Tintagel Castle bridge opens

    The original bridge was said to be so narrow that three knights could have defended Tintagel Castle against an entire kingdom. But more than four centuries after that bridge collapsed...
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    British Government plans 50p coin to mark Brexit

    Chancellor Sajid Javid is drawing up plans for millions of commemorative 50p coin to be issued when the UK leaves the European Union later this year...
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    After Brexit, Canada and the UK will become even closer friends

    Brexit will give Britain new opportunities to work closely with Canada... After Brexit, Canada and the UK will become even closer friends Dominic Raab, British Foreign Secretary The Globe and Mail August 6th, 2019 In diplomacy, Britain and Canada co-operate as closely as any two...
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    Viking drinking hall unearthed in Orkney

    Archaeologists have unearthed a Viking drinking hall in Orkney that could have been used by a high-ranking chieftain 800 years ago. The discovery was made at Skaill...
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    Anglo-Saxon rubbish dump of animal bones found in a beer garden

    Archaeologists have uncovered a 'royal rubbish dump' dating back to 600-700AD in a pub beer garden after a 15-year long search for an Anglo-Saxon manor. 'Masses and masses' of...
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    The culture war against Englishness

    You could say that Englishness is a casualty of our new culture war. The spectre of racist, ignorant English folk – ‘gammons’, in the new lingo – is the caricature against which commentators pose as switched-on and virtuous...
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    The Queen won’t get involved in Brexit - she trusts the judgment of the people

    The sheer hypocrisy of the Lefties - Jeremy Corbyn says that if Johnson faced and lost a vote of no confidence then he (Corbyn) would go to the Queen to ask her to make him Prime Minister (so forget about an election, then). This is the same Corbyn who wants to get rid of the monarchy! He seems...
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    Remainers want your money to sue Boris and go interrailing

    Remoaners who want your money Remainers want your money to sue Boris and go interrailing...
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    The Brexit Bashing Corporation

    Since Boris Johnson became PM, Brexit Derangement Syndrome has worsened across the country. Well, not the entire country – primarily in the Westminster bubble and the commentariat cocoon where the middle-class malady of BDS is most potent... The BBC’s anti-Brexit bias is spinning out of...
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    Spare a thought for our EU-funded aristocracy

    The biggest losers from Brexit could be the super-rich and the aristocracy Spare a thought for our EU-funded aristocracy The EU pays vast sums of money to Britain’s richest landowners. SPIKED 9th August 2019 The Normans still lord it over the Anglo-Saxons: Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke...
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    Abbey Road: Beatles fans gather to recreate cover shot

    Thousands of fans made a pilgrimage to London's Abbey Road 50 years after the Beatles walked over its zebra crossing for the cover of the last album the band recorded. The band was pictured striding...
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    Earthlings may now be living on the Moon

    The moon might now be home to thousands of planet Earth's most indestructible animals. Tardigrades - often called water bears - are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150C and frozen to almost absolute zero. They were travelling on an Israeli spacecraft that...
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    Owen Jones vs democracy

    In a recent Medium post, Guardian columnist Owen Jones explains his decision to campaign against Brexit. He has decided that ‘Lexit’ – that is, a ‘left-wing exit’ from the EU – is impossible. For this reason, he argues that Brexit has to be opposed and the referendum result has to be...
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    Why a no-deal Brexit is now overwhelmingly likely

    Here is why, if you can be bothered to read on... Why a no-deal Brexit is now overwhelmingly likely...
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    Should the British Government form an electoral pact with the Brexit Party?

    The rampant Leavers have taken over the British Government. Is it time they formed an electoral pact with Farage's Brexit Party... Should the Brexiteers try and form an electoral pact? Toby Young 5 August 2019 Spiked In the wake of the Lib Dems’ victory in last week’s Brecon and...
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    The simple test that shows how few Brits are genuine Europhiles

    How European are you? Here’s a simple test: ask yourself what counts as ‘we’. You probably have quite a few. A Glaswegian, for example, might use “we” to describe Glasgow, Scotland and possibly Britain. For me, “we” is my family, the city where I grew up (Birmingham), the town where I live now...
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    From King Alfred to Jane Austen: a historical tour of Winchester

    Ryan Lavelle, a reader in early medieval history at the University of Winchester, takes you on a tour of the rich heritage the Hampshire city has to offer…...
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    Mystery over mass grave of 86 skeletons in Wales

    A mass grave of skeletons belonging to people from all over the world have been discovered buried beneath a Welsh college. The remains of 86 people lay concealed in the ground for...
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    Crocodile found buried under primary school

    The remains of a crocodile have been found buried beneath the floorboards of a Welsh primary school. Stunned builders carrying out renovation work in Rhondda, South Wales, stumbled...