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Slipknot - "Unsainted" (2019) The Iowan heavy metallers reached No4 in the US charts with this...

Slipknot - "Solway Firth" (2019) The Des Moines, Iowa, heavy metallers released this in 2019. The Solway Firth forms part of the border between England and Scotland. There is no reference in the song as to its title, but it may have something to do with the fact that lead singer Corey Taylor...

Erasure - "Chorus" (1991) The London electropoppers, formed after Vince Clarke departed Depeche Mode, had a No3 UK hit with this in the year of the First Gulf War, the year in which Soviet forces stormed Lithuania to try to prevent it from seceding the Soviet Union, the IRA launched a mortar...

The Beatles - "Here Comes the Sun" (1969) It's the middle of a typical cold and dark period of the year, but we know that in a few months the Sun will be back!

ABBA - "Lay All Your Love On Me" (1981) One of the world's most successful artists and the winners of the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, the Swedish band made what was, upon its release in 1981, the biggest-selling song in British history... They are very good...

The song was sung by their drummer Ringo Starr and written as a children's song by bassist Paul McCartney and guitarist John Lennon. It won an Ivor Novella Award for the highest certified sales of any single written by a British songwriter. In later years, Ringo went on to narrate the popular...

British pop singer Robbie Williams is celebrating overtaking The Beatles in having the most UK No1 albums. The former member of 90s Manchester boyband Take That is celebrating his 16th British No1 album after his release of "BRITPOP", overtaking The Beatles' 15 British No1 albums. However...

The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine" (1966) In the year England won the World Cup the most successful band in world history achieved another global No1 hit with this

America warns ally Britain that it's "very dangerous" to do business with China... Britain defends doing business with China after the half-British Anglophile US President Donald Trump warned that it won't be good for Britain to do business with the vast nation of 1.5 billion people. The...

Horrific...

A Field in England - "Baloo My Boy" (2013) In the 2013 British horror movie "A Field in England" a group of men in the English Civil War (1642-1651) escape from a battle between the Parliamentarians and Royalists (although we don't know what side they are on) and encounter mysterious horrors...

The United States in shock as her ally Britain cosies up to China Britain and China become close allies as they meet in Beijing China acknowledges "twists and turns" in her relationship with Britain and says they didn't serve the interests of both countries and says both major economies and...

There are many millions of people here that I would like to give a one way ticket to Hell. Remainers, for instance. I know it's been six years almost exactly since we left the EU but I would still like to send them to some shitty place like China. Or Hell. As part of the EU, Britain could never...

Britain and China agree and sign deals, including visa-free travel to China for Brits, as the two countries' leaders watched on....

That's true, but if there's money to be made then.... "What the Hell.?"

Young men and women seemed starstruck as they presented Starmer with a gift and posed for photos with him as he arrived in Beijing. The British entourage were sure given a warm welcome by the Chinese. The British leader then visited the Forbidden City before his serious business with the...

Chinese welcome British PM as he arrives on Vespina British Prime Minister Keir Starmer disembarks Vespina - the British PM's aircraft - to meet the Chinese President to explore investment opportunities, and reinforce diplomatic partnerships amid growing global economic uncertainty. The two...

So we're all doomed after then.

Britain and China: "We have had twists and turns which have not served the interests of either country" Britain says she wants a "more sophisticated" relationship with China but expresses concern over China's human rights record Britain and China say they are in a "good place" after a...

After a bit of Googling, according to Moore's Law computers become twice as fast every 18 months or so.