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FILM REVIEW OF CHURCHILL
13 March 2018With Gary Oldman’s career-defining portrayal of him in Darkest Hour, Winston Churchill is back. In Great Contemporaries, published in 1937, two years after he had called Hitler’s achievements “among the…
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The Light Brigade
13 February 2018On 25 October, during the Crimean War of 1854, 600 mounted troops of the British Light Cavalry, led by Lord Cardigan at the Battle of Balaclava, charged directly and foolishly…
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Richard Farnell: Something to hide?
13 February 2018When in June 2014 Rochdale MBC had begun a council-commissioned inquiry is into whether there was a town hall coverup relating to possible sex abuse at Knowl View, the late…
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Classic songs – FLAG DAY by THE HOUSEMARTINS
13 February 2018FLAG DAY (THE HOUSEMARTINS) Flag Day was the first single released by British indie rock band The Housemartins. Released in 1985,[1] it peaked at #124 in the singles chart, and a re-recorded version of…
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Pauline town is licensee at the station hotel
13 February 2018I was asked this week “Why do you do it”? And although I know most of you will know this already – it started with an elderly homeless man called…
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The Patient’s eye
13 January 2018The same could be said for the NHS, which is possibly in a worse state than I am. If you have been following this column you will know that my…
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How many 91
13 January 2018How many 91-year-olds know what is being done with their money? But the people to whom that responsibility has been entrusted are answerable for it. The Chancellor of the Duchy…
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tealing Van Gogh – BBC documentary
13 June 2017Andrew Graham-Dixon confronts the worlds of high art and seriously organised crime to uncover the true story behind the greatest art heist of the 21st century. In December 2002, two…