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Labelled by mainstream media as an untypical terrorist and referred to by the German legal system as Taleb A., Taleb Jawad H al-Abdulmohsen was born into a Shiite family in February 1974 in the Saudi [more…]
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If you think I can remember 1924, you’re wrong. One relies upon our friends at the British Newspaper Archive. Ten decades ago some newspapers did publish on Christmas Day. The Sutton & Epsom Advertiser was [more…]
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The second-ever greatest Johnson of words, Samuel, the 18th-century lexicographer, informs us, “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”. Three centuries later, no matter what we think of life we’re [more…]
Question Time 12th December 2024 The Panel: Wes Streeting (Labour) Tom Tugenhat (Conservative) Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) Christine Jardine (LibDem) Emma Dabiri (Writer) Piers Morgan (Broadcaster) Venue: Beckenham Once upon a time, there was a little [more…]
Autumn 1899, just weeks before the turn of a new century, saw two men released from Pentonville Prison on London’s Caledonian Road. Jailed seven years previously following an anarchist plot in Walsall, some continued to [more…]
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