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1983-1992: Neil Kinnock (Labour) 1992-1994: John Smith (Labour) 1994: Douglas Hurd (Conservative) 1994-1997: Ken Clarke (Conservative) 1997-1998: Michael Portillo (Conservative) 1998-2002: Michael Fallon (Conservative) 2002-2005: Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative) 2005-2006: William Hague...

Things can always get worse.

1990-1992: John Major (Conservative) 1992-1994: Michael Heseltine (Conservative) 1994-1994: Norman Lamont (Conservative) 1994-1999: John Smith (Labour) 1999-2003: Gordon Brown (Labour) 2003-2006: Harriet Harman (Labour) 2006-2009: William Hague (Conservative) 2009-2010: John Bercow...

John Freeman went properly off the rails after the Walker’s quixotic putsch attempt, the 1969 election was free but not really fair, and while Britain stayed out of the Third Great War the biological and chemical warfare unleashed by both sides devastated the continent and the global economy...

1937-1938: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading National Government) † 1938-1941: Anthony Eden (Conservative leading National Government) † 1942-1944: John Anderson (National) 1944-1945: Herbert Morrison (Labour) 1944 (Minority): Leslie Hore-Belisha (National), Archibald Sinclair...

Bandwagon 1937-1938: Neville Chamberlain † 1938-1941: 1942-1944: 1944-1945: 1945-1953: 1953-1957: 1957-1968: 1968-1968: 1968-1971: 1971-1977: 1977-1980: 1980-1989: 1989-1991: 1991-:

I strongly suspect a Behind the Mask that made it onto Thriller probably would've sounded like Greg Phillinganes's cover more than anything else.

Here's a random pop culture musing around this cult-favourite sci-fi song from the late seventies from the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Quincy Jones, upon hearing the song on a visit to Japan, had Michael Jackson record a cover which was intended to be the B-side for Thriller. However, that...

There’s something very fun about a deliberately shoddily-written article like this. The final note of the writer “no longer answering his DMs” is pitch-perfect. This AH Britain seems a bit grim, too with the mentions of petrol rationing and seeming decades of austerity.

From The Illustrated, July 16, 2021 Reading Cusack’s Readings: The Prime Minister’s Book Club by Danielle Hayden We are all on Cusack Watch. Curious voters, puzzled voters, suspicious voters — they all want to know who and what exactly the 1,817 highly atypical delegates at the Radical...

Look forward to the full write up but just wanted to say, Janet Rehnquist is a 10/10 hipster choice

Chairperson of the Third International 8th World Congress (1947): Alexandra Kollontai 9th World Congress (1955): Jacques Duclos 10th World Congress (1965): Karl Schirdewan 11th World Congress (1975): Lin Biao 12th World Congress (1985): Joe Slovo 13th World Congress (1995): Jacques Chirac 14th...

@Gorrister liked this so I’m safe in the knowledge that I wasn’t talking total nonsense about Northern Ireland

By the NI Secretary.

The Alliance is still around, though relatively marginal. The anti power-sharing Unionist forces eventually coalesced into the New Unionists. The party of the "Dissident" Republicans has changed in form several times, but in the 2020 Assembly elections they ran under an electoral alliance named...