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Russia’s devastating attack on Kyiv proves Trump’s Ukraine peace plans have failed. It is time for Europe to show leadership
The Independent
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August 28, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Major General Brian Pennicott obituary: Royal Artillery officer
The Times
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Wars seldom end tidily. Even surrender takes negotiation. To his surprise, in June 1982, Colonel Brian Pennicott found himself a last-minute witness to the Argentine capitulation in the Falklands conflict. The process had begun a week earlier, but...
Hull Fishing History: Nick the Cook
Fishing News
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August 28, 2025
This is the tale of two brothers. Nick made his living trawling out of Hull. And Mac died aboard a trawler after only a couple of trips. Their story shows that the paths we choose in life can lead in unexpected directions. Although the Jamaican...
Aurora Expeditions’ Greg Mortimer Ship Review
NOMADasaurus
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August 28, 2025
The Greg Mortimer holds a special place in the world of expedition cruising. When it launched in 2019 it wasn’t just another polar ship — it was the first passenger vessel built with the groundbreaking Ulstein X-BOW®. That single innovation...
Hazel Fox KC, expert on international law
The Times
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When the question of whether General Pinochet, the Chilean dictator, should be granted diplomatic immunity came before the British courts, legal eyes turned to Hazel Fox, whose name was once described as “synonymous with the law of state...
The wonderful world of Prince Andrew
New Statesman
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August 26, 2025
Prince Andrew must be dead already. Biographies about breathing men have an inconclusive, interim quality. There are years to be lived: decisions to be made; books to be written; marriages to end; wars to be fought. The biographer whose subject is...
Afghan Independence Day: A celebration of the end of British dominance
5Pillars
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August 19, 2025
Afghans are commemorating their Independence Day today which celebrates the end of British colonialism in 1919 after three bloody wars. Afghan Independence Day specifically remembers the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919, or Treaty of Rawalpindi, which...
JD Vance branded 'stupid buffoon' by NBC viewers after humiliating blunder
Irish Star
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August 25, 2025
During a recent NBC interview with Vice President JD Vance, the politician made a claim that earned him some serious backlash, most recently the label of 'stupid buffoon.' In a clip from the interview with NBC Meet the Press' Kristen Welker, Vance...
Asylum policy and Farage’s deportation pledge
The Times
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Sir, The establishment of a commission of “independent adjudicators” to decide asylum appeals (report, Aug 24) has panic written all over it. The government has at last realised the folly of having first tier judges whose requirement is but five...
British actor looks unrecognisable as he watches Oasis at Wembley with musician Tom Grennan - but can you guess who it is?
Daily Mail
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August 11, 2025
He was just 13 years old when he rose to fame on This Is England. The British actor secured the role after he was spotted at a youth club by This is England director Shane Meadows, and he went on to nab a British Independent film award for best...
Australia tops new list of most expensive passports in the world - but here's the list of countries it will get you into without a visa
Daily Mail
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August 24, 2025
By NICHOLAS WILSON, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 09:53 EDT, 24 August 2025 | Updated: 09:53 EDT, 24 August 2025 The Australian passport has been revealed as the most expensive in the world for the second year in a row, but research suggests...
Prince Andrew was the subject of two assassination attempts by IRA and Argentinians, claims royal author
Scottish Daily Express
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August 8, 2025
Prince Andrew was the target of two planned assassination attempts by two enemies of Britain during two tumultuous periods in British history. Plans were underway by the Argentine Junta to murder the Duke of York while he was on his Caribbean...
Remains of UK Scientist Found 66 Years After Tragic Antarctic Glacier Death
ScienceAlert
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August 12, 2025
The remains of a British meteorologist who died in an Antarctic expedition in 1959 have been recovered six decades later from a glacier, the British Antarctic Survey said Monday. They were identified by DNA-testing as those of Dennis "Tink" Bell,...
DAN HODGES: Starmer is facing oblivion. This is the secret to recovery - but he's too blind to see it…
Daily Mail
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August 23, 2025
The numbers don’t lie. Keir Starmer’s political fate is now sealed. On Tuesday, pollster YouGov published its latest government approval figures. Starmer’s had collapsed to a net rating of minus 56, matching the final level of Rishi Sunak’s doomed...
Philip Stephens: ‘I am privileged to be Irish as well as British’
The Irish Times
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Philip Stephens’s memories of childhood summer holidays in Ireland are held deep, a mix of the sights, sounds and smells of the Holyhead night-boat, crowded trains to Claremorris in Co Mayo, rush-filled fields and soda bread. Each July, six weeks...
Forging Sea Power Anew: The Merchant Marine Academy and America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
The Diplomat
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August 22, 2025
One of the driving points of political debate in the United States over the past 20 years has harkened back to “what would the founders say” about a particular issue. Like the American founders, today’s policymakers in the United States also face...
Commemorations across south Warwickshire for VJ Day
Leamington Observer
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VJ DAY commemorations took place across south Warwickshire to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. A service was held at St Margaret’s Church in Whitnash to commemorate Victory in Japan Day on Sunday August 10. The...
NATO’s New Ally? Argentina And UK Secret Military Ties To Counter China In The South Atlantic
SouthFront
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August 17, 2025
Support SouthFront Click to see the full-size image Written by Uriel Araujo, Anthropology PhD, is a social scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflicts, with extensive research on geopolitical dynamics and cultural interactions The...
Spurgeon's College, influential Evangelical training center in London, to close after 169 years
The Christian Post - Washington D.C.
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August 1, 2025
Spurgeon's College, a Baptist training college founded by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, is located in London, England. | Wikimedia Commons/Stephen Richards...
No Nukes for Power, Posturing or Destruction
The Sentinel Newspapers - Maryland
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(This is a presentation, titled "No Nukes for Power, Posturing or Destruction," that I gave at the 2025 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemorative Event on Long Island this week organized by the South Country Peace Group and cosponsored by other peace...