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LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 06: Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, pulls a pint of beer at the Tower Hill Brewdog pub on July 6, 2020 in London,...
On this day in 1996, Rupert Murdoch launched Fox News Channel and changed the American news landscape, writes Eliot Wilson Thirty years ago, 20th...
Despite the naysayers, party conferences are not meaningless, so what can we expect from the Tories at Conservative Party Conference 2025? Eliot...
English Labour Party politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey (1917 – 2015) at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton on 3rd...
On this day in 1789, the Bill of Rights was sent to the states for ratification. With the right to free speech still hotly contested 300 years later,...
Andy Burnham has made a bold threat to Keir Starmer, but could he actually unseat the Prime Minister? Eliot Wilson takes a look It is hard to think...
27th July 1963: Mandy Rice-Davies (1944 – ) who rose to fame for her part in the ‘Profumo Affair’ sits in a car with Christine Keeler (1942 –...
AYLESBURY, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 18: U.S. President Donald Trump talks at a press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (not pictured) at...
Angela Rayner and Lord Mandelson are just the latest examples of Starmer’s erring judgement when it comes to character, writes Eliot Wilson Last...
GOODYEAR, ARIZONA – OCTOBER 28: British politician Nigel Farage (R) praises U.S. President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Phoenix Goodyear...
Circa 1680, an early version of football (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Today in 1888, Aston Villa came to an anticlimactic 1-1 draw against...
A 120-metre long wooden model of London’s 17th-century skyline burns on the River Thames after it was set alight in a dramatic retelling of the...
Tax-loving Torsten Bell has been handed responsibility for economic policy Handing responsibility for the economy to a man who was director of...
Cooling towers and a reactor at the world’s first full-scale atomic power station at Calder Hall, Cumberland (now Cumbria), England. The station,...
As the government takes control of another beleaguered steel works, Eliot Wilson asks what, exactly, the long-term plan is? Speciality Steels UK...
People stand on an abandoned tank in a street while pedestrians walk by during the Czech Crisis, Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 29th 1968. (Photo by...
Nigel Farage has said that if ever elected Prime Minister, he would appoint top business leaders to his cabinet Taking successful people from the...
On this day in 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt made a joint statement that would come to be known as the Atlantic Charter – and the start of the...
Labour positioned itself as a party of technocrats, but the small boats deal shows they have no clue what they’re doing, writes Eliot Wilson Last...
On this day in 1704, Gibraltar was surrendered to the Anglo-Dutch fleet. 321 years later, Eliot Wilson looks at what that means today As historical...
Reform leader Nigel Farage has unveiled new non-dom policy known as the Britannia Card(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Invoking Jimmy Savile to...
Mounted riot police at the miners’ demonstration at Orgreave colliery, Yorkshire, where miners picketed the mine, 2nd June 1984. Soon afterwards,...
Image generated by Chat GPT On this day 51 years ago, the US supreme court dealt a serious blow to executive privilege when it ordered to hand over...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – AUGUST 21: In this handout image provided by the Ministry of Defence, the British armed forces work with the U.S. military to...
BRIGHTON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 28: Labour MP for Coventry South Zarah Sultana (L) speaks with former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn after...
February 1911: The exterior of Waterloo Station, London, a London and South Western Railways station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) ...