From New Year’s Day 2025 onward, all education, boarding, and vocational training provided by fee-paying private, or independent, schools in the UK will…
The hundred-year life-journey of Jimmy Carter ended on 29 December 2024 in the ‘city’ of Plains, 150 miles southwest of the metropolis of…
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Donald Trump and his Greenland Project to Make America Bigger, As Well as Greater, Again
President-elect Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on 22 December to renew his 2019 desire, considered “absurd” at the…
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall dashed the hopes of self-styled WASPIs across the UK on 17 December 2024, when she informed the…
It is universally accepted that the supply of affordable homes in England, as well as in the rest of the UK, has failed…
During the early hours of 8 December 2024, Syrian rebel forces entered the capital city of Damascus, ending the 24-year reign of Bashar…
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Six Hours of Emergency Martial Law in South Korea during December 3-4 2024: Some Explanatory Notes
Without warning, in an act of desperation, and empowered by South Korea’s Constitution, President Yoon Suk-yeol informed his audience on the 24-hour YTN…
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024: The Latest Attempt to Legalise Assisted Dying in England and Wales
A packed House of Commons was at its best on 29 November 2024 as MPs eschewed party-political loyalties and voted on the real…
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Methanol Poisoning: The Pointless Loss of Young Lives, and A Wider Problem in Southeast Asia
On 11 November 2024, two 19-year-old Australian backpackers, Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, booked themselves into the Nana Backpackers Hotel in the town…
Estimates vary, but on 19 November 2024, around 20,000, or maybe more, angry, yet peaceful and orderly, British farmers converged on a…