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    They are all in contempt of the people

    Since the Second World War we have been living under an increasingly unrepresentative democracy, in which an isolated and insulated political class has invested more and more power and authority in unelected and unaccountable bodies, from the courts to the European Commission. That is a...
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    Skeleton of 15th Century man wearing wellies found at edge of Thames

    Medieval wellies have been unearthed by archaeologists who stumbled upon a skeleton that may be the remains of a murder victim. The male remains in Bermondsey, south-east London, lay...
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    Skeletons reveal the drudgery of Charles Dickens' London

    Evidence of the hardship and toll of life during the Industrial Revolution on Londoners has been uncovered by archaeologists. The skeletons of a woman who was stabbed to death...
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    If Brexit is blocked, will it ever be worth voting again?

    If Britain doesn’t leave the EU or stays basically trapped inside the EU then I won’t take to the streets. I won’t wail or gnash my teeth. I certainly won’t take to insulting my friends, family or fellow citizens who voted ‘Remain’. Far from it. I will get on with things and with people...
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    The problem with a ‘People’s Vote’

    What’s the wording? What are the options on offer? All the People’s Vote proponents are very clear about is that Remain must be on the ballot, but about the nature of the alternative no one is clear at all. Are they seriously proposing that people should be asked to vote on the respective...
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    Bloody Sunday: how the Lord's day was murder in Medieval England

    Sunday is traditionally a day of rest, but for 14th century Londoners it could be deadly, according to academics. Criminologists at Cambridge University trawled through Coroner’s Rolls which document...
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    Ten myths from the ‘no-deal’ Project Fear

    To the UK's economy having slowed down to people having to go without water and Christmas trees, ten Remain myths about a No Deal Brexit are shattered... COFFEE HOUSE...
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    England to play Kosovo for first time in Euro 2020 qualifiers

    England and Kosovo are to play each other for the first time next year after the two were drawn together in Group A of the Euro 2020 qualifiers. The former Yugoslav republic only played its first...
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    16 things that happened in December through history

    Here, Dominic Sandbrook highlights events that took place in December in history… 16 things that happened in...
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    Roman signet ring found in Suffolk field

    An amateur metal detectorist has discovered an ancient signet ring believed to date back to 200AD in a Suffolk field...
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    Anglo-Saxon women found buried with their bling

    Plague, famine and extreme poverty was not enough to stop women living in Britain during the Dark Ages caring about their appearance...
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    The Queen has her 20ft Christmas tree put up

    The Queen will spend the festive period at her Norfolk retreat surrounded by her family, but before then her other royal residences are undergoing their own Christmas makeover...
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    Why the Brexit fearmongering won’t work

    They still don’t get it, do they? Elite Remainers’ flip-out over the Treasury’s Brexit...
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    Spare me this pagan revival

    Frankly, such people are generally perverts, and not even sexy ones. They are the sort of people who had my mum hiding the News Of The World from my prying pubescent eyes every Sunday rather than let me read about suburban Satan-worshippers whose interest in black magic basically began and...
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    Yours for £2.5 million: A castle once owned by Henry VIII

    HOUSE-HUNTERS looking for a piece of history can get their hands on one of Henry VIII's castles - for £2.5m. Grade I listed Devizes Castle in Wiltshire was owned by...
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    Britain needs LEADERS not idiots to sort out this Brexit deal

    How Britain is proving the old adage that we are possibly led by idiots... STEVE HILTON Britain needs...
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    On the 12th day of Brexit, Theresa gave to me... The start of World War III

    Frankly, I'm sick and tired of being patronised by a Canadian financier with an Irish passport who has become a UK citizen so he can be rewarded with a knighthood for his part in attempting to derail the democratically expressed will of the British people... RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: On the...
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    World's oldest whisky found at medieval abbey

    The oldest whisky still in the world has been uncovered at a medieval abbey where William Wallace took refuge after defeating the English in battle...
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    Gyimah resigns as Science and Universities Minister over Brexit deal

    Remainer Sam Gyimah has resigned as Universities and Science Minister after Theresa May announced she will pull Britain out of the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system...
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    A royal ghost tour: 5 haunted sites around Britain

    A tour of five of the most-haunted sites in Britain... A royal ghost tour: 5 haunted sites around Britain...