Monday, May 25, 2015

Riddell and Lloyd George

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George Allardice Riddell, the early 20th century press baron and key adviser to David Lloyd George during the First World War, was born 150 ...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Insurrection in Paris

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‘Firing is heard. The houses are in turmoil. Doors and casements open and shut violently. The women-servants chat and laugh at the windows. ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Tears instead of ink

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Sir John Oglander, an aristocrat and politician associated with the Isle of White, died all of 430 years ago today. He is as much remembered...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

He loves me so much

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Seventy years ago today, Adolf and Eva Hitler - married just 40 hours earlier - committed suicide in the so-called Führerbunker, Berlin - Ad...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

How bloody corrupt

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In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the end of the 1984-1985 miners’ strike in the UK, the Mirror , a daily newspaper, recently publ...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Black, dead, inhuman

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‘I have been ill now and in bed for over two weeks. That is why I have written nothing. And the new doctor gave me M. & B. tablets which...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Cramming preserves into a jar

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The intriguing Polish writer Leopold Tyrmand died 30 years ago today. His youthful adult life was marked by the turmoil of the Second World ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

The day came at last

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‘The day came at last as all days must come if one waits long enough. The day that ended my old & commenced my new life - a change for t...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

I did the right thing

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‘Every ten minutes or so a constable enters my cell, looks curiously at my scribblings and asks me what I am writing. I say, “A children’s s...