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Saturday, January 3, 2026
Lord Dannatt, former chief of general staff, has told Sky News "quite a number" of soldiers from the Armed Forces Minister, James Heappey's battalion,...
As a Marxist, I was brought up on the idea there were two bourgeois newspapers/magazines, the Financial Times and the Economist, that one needed...
Facebook has apologised after an algorithm generated a prompt that asked users if they would like to "keep seeing videos about primates" on a...
Ministers are optimistic that COVID-19 vaccines will be offered to all 12 to 15-year-olds despite advisers failing to recommend it. The Joint Committee for Vaccination...
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward after wooden fences were damaged by fire in Shaftesbury.  Between approximately 7.45pm and...
Internal government analysis shows impact of cutting universal credit will be 'catastrophic', report claims  According to a report in the Financial Times (paywall), the government’s own...
The standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's...
The Weakest Among Us Empathy is a complex emotion for us humans. In many ways, it seems to be disappearing from society. Because of the...
Why is Joe Biden so unappealing to both the right and left? He stands for nothing in particular and is a corporate stooge. Although...
The media’s lust for blood helped march us into the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wants us to forget that. Everyone is to...