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Soldiers keep wartime tradition alive with festive blanket competition

The contest dates back to the Second World War when troops deployed in harsh conditions sought to bring some Christmas cheer to bleak positions.

The Independent UK

Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy jubilant as they wrap Peaky Blinders movie

Written by creator Steven Knight, the new movie is set during the Second World War, and is teased to involve new conflicts for the Shelby family.

Evening Standard

Brownfield sites alone cannot solve London's worsening housing crisis

We have under-built for a very long time - London hasn’t built 80,000 homes in any year since the Second World War.

Evening Standard

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Yan F Zhang’s ‘fearsome and memorable’ Fleeting Marrow wins 4thWrite prize

The ‘remarkable’ short story is based on real-life deportations of Chinese seafarers in the UK after the second world war

The Guardian - UK

How Lee Miller’s photos remind us of war’s destructive brutality

Almost 80 years since the end of the Second World War, images of its destruction are being brought back to us through the film LEE.

The Conversation

How the UK’s austerity policies caused life expectancy to fall

Between 1945, when the second world war ended, and the start of the 2010s, average life expectancy and mortality rates in high-income countries improved continuously. But from around 2012, in the UK and in several other countries like the US, Germany and the Netherlands, the rate of improvement slowed, stopped,…

The Conversation

Israel invokes Nazis and Second World War in response to ICC arrest warrants

ISRAEL has invoked the Second World War as it said the ICC had chosen “the side of terror and evil” by issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin…

The National (Scotland)

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Germany’s post-Holocaust moral remaking is being challenged by the rise of the far-right – and wars in Gaza and Ukraine

Current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza (now spreading across the Middle East), have placed Germany in a difficult position, forcing it to reconsider its role in the world. A uniquely German sense of guilt and shame for the Holocaust “inseparably” ties the Israel-Palestine conflict to “Germany’s unquestionable solidarity with Israel”,…

The Conversation

Why Is Canada Protecting the Names of Suspected Nazis?

Ottawa won’t disclose list of alleged war criminals believed to have sheltered here after the Second World War

The Walrus

Beyond Ukraine and Gaza: five consequences of overlooking other conflicts

The years since 2020 have been one of the most violent periods since the end of the second world war. The war in Ukraine and the escalating violence in the Middle East have dominated global headlines and captured the attention of policymakers and donors. But while the humanitarian toll in…

The Conversation

Sugar restrictions in early life ‘may lower chronic disease risk in adulthood’

The findings are based on data gathered after the Second World War in the UK, around the time when sugar rationing ended.

Evening Standard

Taxes, borrowing and spending up in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was ‘fixing the foundations of our economy’ but taxes will rise to their highest levels since the Second World War.

Evening Standard

Drama, dance and song on banks of the Tummel

ITS origin is a secret promise made by visionary John Stewart during the horrors of the Second World War – but it is doubtful that even he could…

The National (Scotland)

Wilhelmina Tempest obituary

Other lives: Dutch survivor of the second world war Japanese internment camps who came to Britain to pursue nursing

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Evening Standard

St Paul's Cathedral launches appeal as it prepares to mark 80th anniversary of end of Second World War

It wants to hear from anyone who was involved in helping protect the Cathedral during the Blitz

The National (Scotland)

Grave of Scottish soldier identified in Italy 80 years after death in WW2

THE grave of a formerly unknown Scottish soldier who lost his life in Italy during the Second World War has been identified and rededicated 80…

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak attend annual Battle of Britain service at Westminster Abbey

The event marked the 84th anniversary of the Second World War victory by Royal Air Force pilots and aircrew.

The Guardian - UK

The Kursk attack has humiliated Putin – and changed the narrative over how the war is fought

This is the first time Russian territory has been occupied since the second world war. It disproves the notion Kyiv should cede territory to achieve peace, says Orysia Lutsevych of Chatham House

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The Independent UK

Ukraine’s surprise attack on Russian soil leaves Putin humiliated

Russian forces struggle to deal with assault across border and deep into the Kursk region – which military experts have described as the most significant such incursion since the Second World War

Autosport

Circuits to have hosted the F1 British Grand Prix since its debut

The British GP has become synonymous with its now permanent home of Silverstone circuit, which is widely regarded as one of the best tracks in the world.Silverstone, which lies in Northamptonshire, also hosted F1’s inaugural race in 1950 but it has not been the venue for every British GP since.In…

France 24

‘We’ve been there’: French Resistance fighters speak out against rule by the far right

In the run-up to the second round of legislative elections in France, former members of the resistance to Nazi rule are voicing their concerns over the possibility of a far-right government taking power. They urge the French people not to forget the legacy, spirit and values of the French Resistance…

Evening Standard

Julian Assange flies to the remote Pacific island of Saipan: where is it and what's next?

The WikiLeaks founder has been released from Belmarsh Prison in London — but why is going to an island famous for its role in the Second World War?

Fortune

Jamie Dimon believes U.S. public debt is the ‘most predictable crisis’ the economy faces—and yet in just 3 months America has added $2.1 trillion to its tab

Debt held by the public will rise from 99% of GDP this year to 122% by 2034—surpassing its previous high of 106% in 1946 at the end of the Second World War.

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak intervenes as England fans sing about German casualties

Rishi Sunak has backed Gareth Southgate’s call for fans not to sing about German casualties in the Second World War during the Euros, after…

Evening Standard

House with secret 50-person WW2 air raid shelter in Cornwall hits the market for £799,950

The shelter, which served an RAF Spitfire base during the Second World War, could be turned into a sauna or used for mushroom growing

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