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Don't be deceived by the lack of violence or the comparative good manners of those now seizing control. This is a coup, and what is at stake is the nature and legitimacy of Parliament itself...

The UK project to develop a hypersonic engine that could take a plane from London to Sydney in about four hours is set for a key demonstration...

An Anglo-Saxon gold pendant, found near a site where a similar item worth £145,000 was dug up, probably belonged to a woman of "high social status". The Winfarthing Pendant was found in 2014...

England and Scotland yesterday played what was probably the most astonishing international match in rugby's history...

The crew on board the sunken Henry VIII ship the Mary Rose was from the Mediterranean, North Africa and beyond, researchers have found. Bone structure and DNA of 10 skeletons found on...

A "well loved" Saxon brooch fragment has been declared as treasure. The piece, discovered by detectorists in Shropshire, dates from the 8th Century to early 10th Century...

The genitalia on a famous chalk figure have been given a floral makeover. The Cerne Abbas Giant's penis has been adorned with petals and leaves, making it look like a floral stem. It is not known who made the alteration, although a note was left at a local shop explaining the act was an...

Some MPs don’t want Brexit. And they don’t want to respect the Referendum result. And they have a cunning plan. Oliver Letwin, one of the nicest and cleverest people in politics, and another Conservative MP called Nick Boles, plan to support a move to take control of the Commons from the...

Support for a no-deal Brexit is growing in the face of the EU's refusal to help salvage Theresa May's deal, according to a new poll. A survey by ComRes found that 44 per cent of the public now believe the UK should leave without a deal if Brussels refuses to make any further concessions - a six...

19-year-old Steven Edginton says young people need to rise up for Brexit and join the March to Leave from Sunderland to London from 16th to 29th March... Young people, rise up! We marched against the...

The Queen has given her blessing to a plan to chop down a dozen Windsor oak trees to build a replica of a magnificent Anglo-Saxon burial ship. Containing extraordinary treasure, the...

Titania McGrath amassed a huge following on Twitter thanks to a ludicrous – yet all-too-plausible – stream of ‘right-on’ commentary for a Millennial generation...

Mark Francois, the Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford and the Deputy Leader of the pro-Brexit ERG, and left-wing author Will Self had a bust-up on the BBC's Politics Live after Self made a disgusting slur against 17,410,742 voters...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is the wealthiest man in modern history...

The time for kicking the can down the road has come to an end and MPs – especially in the governing party – have to look over the edge at the train of events that they are going to set off if they don’t hold out for No Deal and leaving on 29th March...

An A-Z of Brexit according to Remainers, listing the lexicon of doublespeak and some of the leading runners and riders, in dictionary form. You’ll find the real meaning of each expression in italics . . ...

A group of documents believed to have been signed by Mary, Queen of Scots, have come to light at the Museum of Edinburgh after decades spent unseen...

Experts say a sword fragment will help them better understand the "practice of hoarding" in the Bronze Age...

At the Park des Princes in Paris last night Manchester United were heading out of the Champions League until a goal four minutes into injury time at the end of the match sent them through to the quarter finals. And they also made a bit of Champions League history...

A "small football-sized" cannonball thought to have been fired during the English Civil War has been found wedged in a wall. It was discovered during repair work at Castle Cornet in Guernsey. 'English Civil War cannonball' found in castle wall BBC News 7 March 2019 Stonemasons found the...