It happened today – this day in history – May 26
1538: Geneva expels protestant reformer John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for
Read more1538: Geneva expels protestant reformer John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for
Read more15BC: Birth of Julius Caesar Germanicus. 1153: Malcolm IV becomes King of Scots. 1218: The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for
Read more1002: King Ethelred II (the ‘Unready’) launches ‘St Brice’s Day’ massacre of Danish settlers. 1312: Birth of Edward III in
Read moreArmando Ianucci’s The Thick Of It was the last great British satire, thanks in no small part to Pater Capaldi’s
Read moreThe hipocrisy, as Val Kilmer’s Doc Holiday said in Tombstone, knows no bounds. On Tuesday I watched an uncomfortable press
Read moreWhen Armando Iannucci created the classic satirical sitcom The Thick of It, he could never have imagined that a real
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