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Sunday round-up 13 July 2025
Birthday cake? Make it so for Sir Patrick Stewart, Harrison Ford and Ian Hislop, while Montenegro marks Statehood Day recalling the end of the Congress…
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Eliot Wilson
Sunday round-up 6 July 2025
Birthday wishes to the Dalai Lama, George W. Bush and Eva Green; Jan Hus Day in the Czech Republic; and a tale of Mary Tudor and her Spanish husband…
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Eliot Wilson
Starmer goes nuclear: UK back in the air game
The RAF may soon regain the ability to launch tactical nuclear weapons, but this embrace of smaller devices is fraught with risk and potentially…
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Eliot Wilson
Sunday round-up 29 June 2025
A big day for Romans as it is the Feast of SS Peter and Paul; candles for Gary Busey and Amanda Donohoe; a black day for (Sir) Roger Casement
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Eliot Wilson
NATO's Article 5: collective security
The obligations among member states enshrined in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty are not watertight and mean nothing without personnel, resources…
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Eliot Wilson
Sunday round-up 22 June 2025
The Hampstead Tube opens, the title of "Emperor of India" is omitted from the royal style and titles, and St John Fisher and St Thomas More are…
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 15 June 2025
Magna Carta is agreed, the Battle of Kosovo is fought, birthday cake for Simon Callow, Noddy Holder, Xi Jinping and Ice Cube and we dance to mark St…
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Eliot Wilson
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Trump is itching to flex military might: calling out the National Guard
The President has activated 4,000 National Guard personnel and a US Marine infantry battalion to deal with disorder in Los Angeles, and the state is…
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 8 June 2025
Millicent Martin, Nancy Sinatra and Bonnie Tyler walk into a birthday party... and marking the Viking raid on Lindisfarne, St Jadwiga's Day and French…
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 1 June 2025
Birthdays for Morgan Freeman, Brian Cox and the "Son of Sam", Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen and Adolf Eichmann is executed
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Eliot Wilson
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Digest: Trump's empty seats, and making our own steel
The President has only filled a minority of senior federal positions after for months in office; and we cannot debate state protection for vital…
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Eliot Wilson
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The King's Speech, Canadian version
Today Charles III opens the Parliament of Canada in person, only the third time the monarchy has ever done so: and the audience is Washington and world…
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Eliot Wilson
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