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Trump has justified his threat by accusing the three targeted countries of not doing enough to prevent drugs, specifically fentanyl, from entering the US. He has also insisted that Canada…

Rather than write a conventional review of her very long and detailed autobiography I decided to say something about where I placed her and her values in what increasingly looks…

when  we kids got out of hand at gran’s “It’s like Fred Karno’s Circus in here.”  By 1914 he was already in the new film industry where over the years…

Tony Blair On Leadership. Lessons for the 21st. Century. LEAD US NOT INTO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MINE IS THE KINGDOM, THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER AMEN. Tony…

On 14 September 1989, seven members of the Aids campaign group ACT UP infiltrated the New York Stock Exchange and chained themselves to the VIP balcony in protest at the…

People gathered in St Peters Square, Manchester to remember those who died on that terrible day of 16th August 1819. There were banners and placards of different sizes being held…

On that day in 1984, the NUM had decided to have a large picket at the Orgreave coking plant. They wanted to disrupt the supply of coke from Orgreave to…

LABOUR’S FIRST YEAR J.E.D. HallPENGUIN BOOKS (1947) This can hardly be a conventional book review that might influence new sales. The book was published in 1947 and written by an…

Nearly eight years after Diana’s death in a car crash was mourned the world over, Prince Charles, her widower and heir to the British throne, weds his long time mistress, Camilla. The marriage, a…

This week Lowkey is joined by Asa Winstanley, an investigative journalist living in London, who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He hails from the south of Wales and…