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The French Yellow Vests have smashed Paris for another weekend burning cars, destroying stores and fighting with police. More than 36,000 people across France let their presence be felt with 5,000 in Paris, according...
When I read Mr Hanrahan’s article I wondered should I take it literally? Then I knew I would be a fool not to (writes Dorothy Banks). For me, there was no simple way of...
As most people in the UK and Ireland will know, the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced yesterday the result of various scenarios relating to Bank of England projections for the...
What would we do without our hourly Instagram update or our lunchtime flick through Facebook? Social media is arguably the most popular phenomenon of modern day life. There are so many forms – Instagram,...
Alexander Dubcek had a dream – and one day it came true. Sadly, it lasted only four months but he had given Czechoslovakia a small taste of freedom. The dream ended overnight on 21...
How many Facebook users know that their comments on the bear-pit of social media sites Facebook could get them into BIG trouble? And quite right too says the consumerwatchfoundation.com! The reminder that the laws...
History shows hundreds of people died in the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Perhaps we’ll never really know how many. But we do know that a large number of them were callously run over by...
Harold Wilson considered military action on an abandoned sea-fort where Radio Caroline had been broadcasting and was then taken over by other radio pirates. Other plans to scupper them included dropping Marines on to...
As a tabloid journalist who worked on exposes involving Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith and Stuart Hall – and many others who never actually got exposed in the Press or, indeed, in the courts –...
In recent years we have seen many dark days indeed down in the UK’s gutter. No matter how pointless the Leveson inquiry into the morals and actions of the British Press, its political fog...
