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Razorlight - "In the Morning" (2006) The London rockers had a No3 UK hit with this

On Friday I got a new King Charles III coin for the first time. It was the new King Charles III £1 coin with the King on one side and two bees on the "tails" side. I used it to pay the £2 bus fare to work. Funnily enough, the bus I got on was a yellow Greater Manchester "Bee Network" bus, the...

Spandau Ballet - "Musclebound" (1981) In the year I was born, the London New Wave band had a hit with this. Spandau were New Romantics, a UK subculture of the late 70s and early 80s in which men wore elaborate and androgynous clothing and makeup. Bassist Martin Kemp later became an actor -...

A message to the nation from Reform UK leader Nigel Farage... The British economy is in desperate trouble. Despite what politicians pretend, you can see for yourself that nothing works anymore. When the next election comes, Reform UK will be ready. We will proudly be the party of alarm clock...

Britain has just released footage of her new DragonFire drone-killing laser shooting down drones travelling at 400 mph. The laser can hit targets the size of a £1 coin from a kilometre away at a cost of just £10 per shot. The ammunition is unlimited. The British have said that they will start...

New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle" (1986) In an almost unique scenario, after Ian Curtis, the vocalist of rockers Joy Division hanged himself in his kitchen in 1980 just before they were about to undertake a tour of America, the Salford, Greater Manchester, band re-organised themselves as...

Wham! - "Last Christmas" (1984) Despite being the UK's 1984 Christmas No2 - having been beaten to the coveted UK Christmas No1 by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (in which George Michael himself sang) - amazingly the band fronted by George Michael, who went on to have a successful...

The Pretenders - "2000 Miles" (1983) In 1983, the British band fronted by an American woman had a big Christmas hit with this. In 2022, Chrissie Hynde, now 74, applied for, and became, British. The song is simply about a woman missing a man at Christmas. Chrissie has said of the band's...

You don't have to name them after naval heroes. You just give them an intimidating-sounding or cool name. We have HMS Achilles being built as part of the Astute-class submarines.. That's a cooler name than, say, Gerald R. Ford. And we will have the four Dreadnought-class submarines - HMS...

This comes after a Russian ship beamed lasers at an RAF plane. The British have called the situation "deeply dangerous." It seems as though the Russians are testing the British and the British have said: 'We see you. We know what you are doing. And we are ready." The Russians are prodding the...

The Royal Navy ship HMS Severn forced the Russian ships out of British waters to the coast of northern France where NATO allies took over Two Russian warships were intercepted in the English Channel by the Royal Navy, the British Ministry of Defence has revealed. HMS Severn – a Royal Navy...

Because that's not scary and hard. If an enemy comes up against a ship named Agamemnon they're most likely to think "Nah, we'd best not take it on."

Because the British are geniuses at naming their warships. Even the names sound hard and scary. The Americans, for example, have USS Gerald R. Ford. Boring. The British have HMS Agamemnon. The first Royal Navy HMS Agamemnon was Nelson's favourite ship. So it's an apt name for the Royal Navy's...

King Charles III - Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces - has launched the newest Royal Navy warship into service. At Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, His Majesty launched HMS Agamemnon, the sixth of seven of the Royal Navy's powerful and hi-tech Astute-class nuclear...

Drone footage shows British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales and British destroyer HMS Dauntless in the Bay of Naples off southern Italy. The two are amongst the most powerful warships in the world. The Prince of Wales can carry up to 65 aircraft of varying types and is currently bristling...

Britain arms her ally Ukraine to the teeth Britain gifts 99 AS-90 howitzers to Ukraine As well as a Terrahawk drone killer, it's also been revealed - through a Freedom of Information request from a British citizen - that Britain has given all 99 of her remaining AS-90 self-propelled...

Ukraine’s air defences just got a major boost with the deployment of Britain's Terrahawk Paladin, a cutting-edge counter-drone and short-range air defence system. Now operational with Ukraine's 156th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, the Paladin combines mobility, AI-powered targetting and a 30mm...

Good Charlotte - "Fairytale of New York" (2025) Hailing from Waldorf, Maryland, the rockers have covered the massive 1987 Christmas hit by British band The Pogues...

The Scaffold - "Lily the Pink" (1968) The Scaffold were a British comedy band consisting of Roger McGough - a poet and children's author I was a fan of as a kid - comedian and entertainer John Gorman, who co-presented the children's show "Tiswas" from 1978 to 1981, and musician and photographer...

Jona Lewie - "Stop The Cavalry" (1980) The Southampton singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist scored a UK Christmas No3 hit with this emotional song about a young British soldier who, understandably, wanted to leave the bitter cold of his trench and enemy shellfire to spend Christmas with...