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When, in July 1957, British prime minister Harold Macmillan told a Tory Party rally that the British people ‘had never had it so good’, supplying the postwar period with its famously optimistic gloss, one historical fact tends to be overlooked: the world was in the grip of a pandemic... Making...

So now Basil Fawlty’s gone down the memory hole. The crazed witch-hunt against ‘problematic’ culture has come for the sitcom that is often voted Britain’s best ever... Now even Fawlty Towers is being erased The crazed witch-hunt against ‘offensive’ culture is completely out of control...

When a mob toppled a statue of merchant and slave trader Edward Colston in central Bristol on Sunday, the scenes were reminiscent of the collapse of a tyrannical regime... Towards Britain’s Year Zero The toppling of statues is a sign of things to come. ALEXANDER ADAMS 11th June 2020 Spiked...

London's earliest playhouse may have been discovered at a housing redevelopment in Whitechapel, archaeologists have said. The Red Lion was thought to be the first purpose-built theatre of the Elizabethan...

Analysis by X-ray of three copper-alloy artefacts recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose has offered new insight into their construction and the success of conservation efforts undertaken on them...

During lockdown, curatorial staff at Vindolanda have been taking a closer look at the vast reserve collection of leather. Whilst sifting through bags of offcuts and scraps, some of which contain hundreds of pieces, they found a piece of leather that had been fashioned into a small animal...

Dorset's annual knob-eating competition is to be held online for the first time. The event - in which contestants vie to gobble more of the county's traditional biscuits than their rivals - usually draws huge crowds... Coronavirus: Dorset knob-eating contest held online amid lockdown BBC News...

Defiant Brits celebrate and commemorate VE Day in lockdown: Prince Charles leads solemn two-minute tribute, Red Arrows fly over Buckingham Palace and a deserted London as people make the best of a very special bank holiday Defiant Brits across the nation are...

If you ever visit Karlsruhe, you could easily mistake the building housing the Bundesverfassungsgericht (BverfG), the highest German constitutional court, for the refectory block of some dreary new university. Dreary or not, on Tuesday that court took a major decision which trenchantly and...

Was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else around at the time to drown it out?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a son. A spokeswoman for the PM and his partner said both mother and baby are "doing very well". It is understood Mr Johnson, who has just recovered from coronavirus, was present throughout the birth, at an...

Not only is it St George's Day today, but it's also Prince Louis' second birthday. Photographs of the fifth in line to the Throne taken by his mother Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, show him with...

Every tragedy is an opportunity in disguise. At least, that’s how those most vehemently opposed to Britain leaving the EU seem to view coronavirus. To them, the global pandemic is just one more opportunity to battle against Brexit... The ghouls using Covid-19 to bash Brexit Their exploitation...

Brexit is done. Britain has gone. So here's a thread about Italexit, the next big thing...

He did his bit for his country in the jungles of Burma. Now, 80 years on, he's doing his bit for his country again... TOM'S TRIUMPH I’m a big fan of the Queen… I’d love to meet her, says Captain Tom after knighthood petition passes 800,000 Mike Ridley Jonathan Reilly 16 Apr 2020 The Sun...

On the 75th anniversary of the British liberation of Belsen, here's the story of the horror and depravity that confronted the soldiers...

Like vultures, they swoop. The Britain-bashers. The still bruised Remainers. The woke elites for whom Britain is little more than a former Empire, still riddled with racism and drunk on nationalism. All of these ghouls spy in the Covid-19 crisis a chance to put the boot into Britain... The sick...

The anti-Boris and anti-Brexit loonies don't believe that Boris was really in hospital... The rise of the centrist conspiracy theorists The ‘Boris wasn’t ill’ crowd are truly unhinged. SPIKED 14th April 2020 Spiked One of the alarming things of recent times has been the mainstreaming of...

As Boris Johnson recovers from Covid-19, he will undoubtedly be thinking of an earlier epidemic, says Oxford classicist Armand D'Angour - the plague that hit Athens in 430 BC, and killed the prime minister's hero, Pericles... Coronavirus: What Boris Johnson's Greek hero teaches us about...

How cool is this? A video of normal street life at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, April 1897. With added sound effects.