Historian, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords, Professor Peter Hennessy’s Covid diary collecting his thoughts each day, started six days before the UK went into its first lockdown, vulnerable through illness, sits as a cross-bencher, has been told to shield at home from the virus. He discovered the links between the post-second world…
“Londongrad” is a phenomenon brought to the fore by Vladimir Putin’s savage attack on Ukraine, with Britain’s Liz Truss slamming the Oligarchs and their associates on the floor of the House of Commons. The British establishment and its financial system provide for dirty money from the post-Soviet era and elsewhere may be seen as an…
The Cloaca Maxima, ( Cloaca, Roman goddess), one of the world’s earliest sewage systems and a sacred symbol of Roman culture and Roman engineering, was built during either the Roman Kingdom or the early Roman Republic, around 600 BC, under the orders of the King of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus, to drain local marshes and remove…
Australian Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne (52), “King of Spin” who took 708 Test wickets in 145 matches the second most of all time, and arguably history’s best bowler, has died of a suspected heart attack in his villa on the Thai Island of Koh Samui on Friday. “ It is with great sadness we advise…