Cometh the hour, cometh the m-m-m-man. That's the essential message of The King's Speech, in which George VI overcomes his stammer to rouse his countrymen to fight the Germans... more
We're not facing Panzers or the Luftwaffe today, but there's no doubting that something similar to Churchill's government of national unity is needed... more
Serial squatters have taken over a house in the same Belgravia square that is home to Nigella Lawson and her art collector husband Charles Saatchi... more
Diaries written by the lover of Benito Mussolini tell of the intense and at times tearful relationship between the Italian dictator and Adolf Hitler... more
A leading Labour rebel claimed that Gordon Brown is now the most unloved Prime Minister since Neville Chamberlain just before he was deposed in 1940... more
After Boris Johnson's rousing declaration that "ping-pong is coming home", London's youngsters are surely besieging the table-tennis tables in preparation for 2012... more
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