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    Tory MP takes no crap from climate protestor... and the Left are angry

    The Left are whingeing again, this time because a Tory MP forcibly ejected a climate change protestor from Mansion House during a speech by the Chancellor... COFFEE HOUSE The moral arrogance of the Mansion House climate protestors Brendan O'Neill 21 June 2019 The Spectator In last night’s...
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    Shropshire 'sword in the sand' could be from 13th Century

    A teacher who pulled a sword from a sandy area in a cave more than 30 years ago has discovered it could date back to the 13th Century. Mark Lawton spotted the sword "sticking out of the sand" while walking...
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    Wooden arm discovered in Roman well

    A rare 2,000-year-old wooden arm has been recovered from the bottom of a Roman well. The "finely carved" limb was found by archaeologists excavating land at the Warth Park industrial estate in Raunds...
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    Hundreds of Remainers gather at Stonehenge to celebrate summer solstice

    Thousands of people greeted the sun with cheers this morning as it rose over Stonehenge for summer solstice. Those who observed the spectacle at the neolithic Wiltshire monument encountered a...
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    Noel Gallagher’s right… our Brexit-sneering liberal elite are Half The World Away

    Noel Gallagaher — like almost every bloody pop musician — backed Remain in the referendum. But he said: “There’s only one f***ing thing worse than a fool who voted for Brexit. That’s the rise of the c***s trying to get the vote overturned.”...
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    Johnson breaks the rules and may bring Brexit… and that’s why the elite hates him

    LISTEN hard enough and you may hear it on the breeze: The noise of low, thrashing moans, wails of “Nooo!” and the thud of skulls thumping Whitehall office walls...
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    Scotland's crannogs are older than Stonhenge

    Archaeologists have discovered that some Scottish crannogs are thousands of years older than previously thought. Crannogs were fortified settlements constructed on artificial islands in lochs. Scotland's crannogs are older than Stonehenge 13 June 2019 BBC News Neolithic pottery...
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    Electrical failure cuts power to all of Argentina and Uruguay

    A massive electrical failure has left all of Argentina and Uruguay without power, according to a major Argentine electricity provider. Reports said the power cut had also affected parts of Brazil and...
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    Wild Bill

    New ITV drama starring Hollywood actor Rob Lowe. US police chief Bill Hixon lands in Boston - Boston, Lincolnshire, that is - with his 14 year-old daughter Kelsey, hoping to flee their recent painful past. The new community forces Bill to question everything about himself.
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    The sooner Britain leaves this grotesque temple of excess the better

    EUROSTAR carriages were rammed with politicians en route to Brussels, as the EU rolled out the red carpet for newly elected MEPs last week...
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    Cheese waste to power homes

    It's the kind of cracking inventiveness that Wallace and Gromit would applaud – watery waste from making Wensleydale cheese is to be used to keep thousands of homes warm. When milk...
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    Police probe cases of malpractice in Labour by-election win

    'Another rotten borough': Nigel Farage lashes out after observers warn Labour's by-election win in Peterborough was 'like corrupt Kazakhstan' as police probe five cases of 'malpractice'...
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    How dare you call the Brexit Party racist?

    The Brexit Party’s success has startled its political opponents. It also presents them with an intractable problem. The problem for the Remain Liberal Democrats and the majority of the Labour Party is how to reconcile their support for a fundamentally anti-democratic institution – the...
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    Does Britain really owe a ‘debt’ to the EU?

    If a lawyer advises you to pay money which you do not owe, and you do so, then you can sue that lawyer to compensate you for the loss. That’s because the lawyer owes his client a duty to not give wrong advice. Does a politician or a journalist owe that duty? Can we sue them if their...
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    Spare us the outrage over the Farage battery acid joke

    No, I don't think Jo Brand should apologise or be sacked by the BBC for joking about throwing battery acid at Nigel Farage. Or investigated by the Old Bill. The clue is in the word...
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    Why Baroness Scotland should quit as Secretary General of the Commonwealth

    Baroness Scotland's determination to remain at the helm threatens to bring the Commonwealth to its knees, embarrass the Queen and even cause a rift in the Royal Family...
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    Bronze Age cairn dig at Bryn Celli Ddu

    An excavation is under way on the site of a suspected 4,500-year-old burial cairn that lies next to one of Wales' most important prehistoric monuments...
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    Hot air balloons fill London's sky in annual regatta

    Hot air balloons have sailed into central London's clear blue skies this morning for the Lord Mayor's annual regatta...
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    Thought British Remainers were bad? Try explaining Brexit to liberal Americans

    Leave supporters may find the implacable self-righteousness of British Remainers trying if not exhausting. Yet that frustration cannot compare with the exasperation of talking to Americans about Brexit... Thought British Remainers were bad? Try explaining Brexit to liberal Americans...
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    Farage delivers his Brexit plan to Downing Street as May quits

    Nigel Farage yesterday delivered his plans for Breexitt to 10 Downing Street, on what was May's last day as Tory leader. Yesterday also saw the Labour Party win the Peterborough by-election, but only just, amassing just 683 votes more than second-placed Brexit Party... I'm next! Farage...