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How did Biro invent the Biro and how did it prove helpful during World War II? Who was Ladislao José Biro, how did he invent the ballpoint pen and how did it help in World War II? Cara McGoogan 29 September 2016 The Telegraph You may not realise this but the humble ballpoint pen, used...

Why a Trump-led America working with Brexit Britain is just what we need.... Together a Trump-led US and Brexit Britain can restore Nato and the West John Bolton, Former US ambassador to the UN 28 September 2016 The Telegraph Three months after the Brexit vote, it’s...

The UK will be a standard-bearer for free trade when it leaves the European Union, Liam Fox says. The International Trade Secretary said Brexit was a "golden opportunity" and that it was "100% wrong" to say the vote was a sign of Britain looking inwards. Liam Fox: Brexit is a 'golden...

From the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling a Labour voter a "bigoted woman" in 2010 because she asked him what is he going to do to cut immigration, to Diane Abbott labelling "racists" those 17.4 million who voted to regain their country's sovereignty from the corrupt, anti-democratic and...

There cannot be many bars where bottles of alcohol have remained unopened for decades at a time. But the remains of a 200-year-old public house have been unearthed in a busy city centre - complete with untouched bottles of brandy. Archaeologists have unearthed the former drinking house as...

Britain will thrive outside the European Union as the bloc turns inward, a top German business leader has said. Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of media giant Axel Springer, said the UK would be ‘highly attractive’ to investors after it left. He believes Brexit will see the nation embrace...

Why, three months on, the democracy-fearing elites of Europe and the UK still cannot handle the truth about what happened on 23 June. The truth about those ‘Brexit lies’ Mick Hume...

The EU referendum campaign and its aftermath has divided Britain more deeply than at any time in living memory. Our two main political parties have split over the issue, a Prime Minister has quit in ignominy, the entire "expert class" has been discredited, yawning gulfs have opened up...

BBC History Magazine has asked eight historians to share some surprising statistics from their fields of expertise – from the Roman empire to the Second World War… History’s big numbers Think that numbers should be left to accountants? Then think again. The humble statistic can give lovers of...

Archaeologists have discovered the perfectly preserved skeleton of a Roman man who had to be squeezed into a stone coffin after blundering undertakers made it too small for him. The feet of the dead male, found in a quarry in Dorset, had to be bent backwards for his corpse to fit inside...

How to deal with nasty aliens? The Red Dwarf lads have had their personalities changed by a Polymorph (Rimmer has become a left-winger, wearing a "GIVE QUICHE A CHANCE t-shirt") and here they are discussing how to get rid of it....

The archaeological remains of two Elizabethan playhouses, including the theatre in which Shakespeare's Hamlet was first performed, have been protected. The Theatre, in Hackney, north east London, and the Hope, Bankside, central London, were the first and last playhouses of the era built...

I like the Vindaloovians in Red Dwarf:

King Edwards are good. Great to make chips out of - washed down by a cup of Earl Grey.

Blackadder: To you it’s a potato, to me it’s a potato. But to Sir Walter Bloody Raleigh it’s country estates, fine carriages, and as many girls as his tongue can cope with. He’s making a fortune out of the things; people are smoking them, building houses out of them… They’ll be eating them next...

It can't be worse than drinking essence of burnt beans.

How can you have never heard of Earl Grey tea, one of the world's most famous brands of tea? When I was in Perugia for a few months in 2004 they were selling Twinings Earl Grey tea in local supermarkets. It's scented with bergamot oil and named after Charles Grey, British Prime Minister between...

The legacy of those who died in the Falklands War is being tarnished by a thaw of relations between Britain and Argentina, some of the islands' natives are claiming. In the biggest breakthrough in years, both countries recently announced that they would work to remove restrictions in the oil...

Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as Labour leader, comfortably defeating his challenger Owen Smith. He won 61.8% of the vote, a larger margin of victory than last year. He vowed to bring Labour back together, saying "we have much more in common than divides us", insisting the party could win...

I'm also partial to PG Tips and Typhoo.