Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. PRODUCED and directed by the brilliant Gordon Murray, who would go on to give us the Trumptonshire Trilogy, Captain Pugwash was compulsory teatime viewing on the BBC between 1957 and 1966. It was introduced by a version of the Trumpet Hornpipe, performed by solo accordionist Tom Edmondson […]
AS A committed supporter of the many advantages of living in a country with a well established constitutional monarchy, and a great admirer of the late Queen Elizabeth II and her life of service to Great Britain and the British Commonwealth over several decades, I ask this with some trepidation and a heavy heart. However, […]
As we approach the end of the year, we are repeating our twenty most-read articles of 2023, in reverse order. This is number 6 and it was first published on March 20. DR James Thorp is an expert in high-risk and maternal foetal medicine. He has watched in horror, but thankfully not in silence, over […]
Continuing our series of articles by the much-loved TCW writer Nick Booth, who died in September. It was first published on July 19, 2021. You can read Kathy’s introduction here. GOOD morning, you’re watching GB News. This morning, we’re asking the question: Are you sitting at home thinking: where’s the actual news? Where’s the Great […]
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“Good King Wenceslas” is a Christmas carol that tells a story of a Bohemian king going on a journey and braving harsh winter weather to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen (December 26, the Second Day of Christmas). During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle […]
NEW YORK — Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter after a judge rejected a First Amendment claim by the conservative group Project Veritas to stop investigators from seeing the records. Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said on behalf of […]
Another day, another influencer finds himself embroiled in a scandal. But this scandal comes not from the drama and scandal-ridden world of TikTok dancers or YouTube beauty gurus, but a more niche and unexpected corner of the internet: namely, the world of hunting and outdoors influencers. The influencer in question is one Tristan James Hamm, […]
The iPad generation has grown up and joined the Navy. Like many parents across the country who negotiated screen time with their children, the Navy is now allowing recruits allotments of screen time in the (once) device-less crucible of Navy boot camp. Within several weeks, recruits in two divisions “will have limited access to their […]
Don’t mistake me for a spoil-sport: on the contrary, I should like to revive all the good old customs genuinely associated with the joyous season of Christmas. In city after city, I have seen Christmas parades on Thanksgiving Day! One might think that we were celebrating the birth of Mammon, rather than that of Jesus, […]
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