Absolutely sickening The government has agreed to let Trump force the NHS to pay 25% more for medicines "The move will cost taxpayers in Britain about £3bn" Terrible news for patients ft.com/content/02e478…

It's important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas: ghosts terrorising rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more.

I’m four episodes into Ken Burns’ new series about the Revolutionary War and, honestly, I’m not sure we’re going to win.

Ed, an 88-year-old veteran, retired from General Motors in 1999 but lost his pension and health coverage in GM's 2012 bankruptcy. His wife, ill at the time, passed away seven years ago. He sold their home and properties to survive, now works 40 hours weekly to make it

What do you mean, "had"?

The greatest Sainsbury's advert ever made depicting the legendary football games between British and German soldiers during the unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 (WW1). This touching and well-made scene is a vivid reminder that the men fighting atrocious, uneccessery battles

We have to stop this

In 1946, a Harvard Law librarian paid just $27.50 for what was listed as a simple copy of the Magna Carta, the legendary 1215 charter that forced King John to accept that even a monarch is subject to the rule of law. For the next seventy-plus years, the parchment gathered dust

Ivan Babcock of the U.S. Army photographed wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave in Siegan, Germany, in April 1945. The cave had been used by German forces to store valuable items. (Credit: History In Color)

Amazing how the old Neocons now sound like the wise grandee dignitaries they always aspired to be.

All these images of German soldiers in 1945 look like schoolboys. Because they were.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner spotted having dinner and walking around tonight in Moscow, accompanied by the Head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev.

But cam is a celtic word?

Most Europeans have no idea about what’s coming

Some years ago a German farmer showed me his pre-1989 ration card.

Changes over the last century. Liverpool Street Station, London.

British imperial stations circa 1898 Remarkable how cheap this global domination was: 100k men were in the navy 75k soldiers in India The defence budget was a mere 2.5% of the net national production