It happened today – this day in history – June 21
1377: Death of Edward III aged 64. 1529: Catherine of Aragon speaks against her marriage’s annulment to Henry VIII at
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Read moreEvents in Westminster have all become pretty tawdry since the protracted Brexit row threatened democracy itself. But has British politics
Read moreIt’s undeniable that at the moment Boris Johnson owes his job to Vladimir Putin. With his most likely successor sitting
Read more456: St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop. 1424: James I of Scotland returns home after 18 years
Read moreA lot has changed over the past seventy years, but one constant has been Her Majesty The Queen, who has
Read moreThe Port of Tilbury welcomed the Prime Minister to the UK’s newest port today (Monday January 31) to officially open
Read moreIt takes a spectacular level of hypocrisy to accept a job to lead the investigation into alleged parties held in
Read more1694: The Royal Society censures astronomer Edmond Halley for suggesting in a paper titled ‘Some considerations about the cause of
Read moreThe word sleaze became attached to politics in the mid 1990s when a series of scandals rocked John Majors government
Read moreSouthend is to be granted city status in the wake of the killing of MP Sir David Amess. Boris Johnson
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