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    Peterloo Massacre: Tracing the relatives

    Descendants of Peterloo survivors have spoken of their pride after research by an academic revealed their ancestors took part in the protest...
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    From Peterloo to Brexit

    Saturday is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, when working people in Manchester were attacked and murdered by cavalry forces for daring to demand the right to vote. And what is our political class doing on this anniversary of such an important event in British political history...
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    Boris Johnson is the EU’s nemesis. But could he be Europe’s saviour?

    Boris’s populism (for that is how it is going to be spun by some) has taken on two arguments, on which he may very well be proved right... Boris Johnson is the EU’s nemesis. But could he be Europe’s saviour? Matthew Leeming 16 August 2019 The Spectator It is a curious and rather moving...
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    Britain's "First Lady" makes her first speech

    Carrie Symonds, 31, was in England's smallest county Rutland today to make her first speech as Britain's "First Lady"... PM's partner Carrie Symonds makes first speech since No 10 move...
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    Remainers got it wrong about the employment rates

    33 million Britons are in employment, the second-highest number of any EU member state after Germany (in contrast, France, with a similar population to Britain, has just 25 million people in employment). One million more Britons are in work since the EU referendum, despite the warnings from...
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    The Green Party's coup against Brexit is sexist

    Three years into Britain's political civil war over Brexit and the losing Remainers are coming up with all sorts of devious and weird and undemocratic tricks to win. The latest idea, from the Green Party, is...
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    5 British castles with romantic histories

    Five British castles with thoroughly romantic histories... 5 British castles with romantic histories...
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    National disunity is Jeremy Corbyn’s only future — he can’t thwart Brexit

    There are two huge flaws in the Remainers' latest plan to thwart Brexit... JAMES FORSYTH National disunity is Jeremy Corbyn’s only future — he can’t thwart Boris Johnson’s Brexit COMMENT James Forsyth The Sun 10 Aug 2019 THE latest plan to thwart Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy is...
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    Richard Braine is elected Ukip leader with landslide victory

    Richard Braine has been elected the new leader of Ukip, replacing Gerard Batten after taking more than half the vote in a leadership contest. The chairman of the party's West London...
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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...