GILES UDY: I have spent decades studying Stalin's Russia - and Starmer's Britain is more similar than you'd think... ⊖
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19 days ago
When Rachel Reeves' Treasury this week floated the idea of imposing a price cap on the cost of everyday foodstuffs sold by Britain's supermarkets, the proposal was met with outcry.
21 days ago
Revealed: Huge sum Dame Joan Plowright left to her children after the award-winning actress died last year aged 95 ○
The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning performances in TV biopic Stalin and Enchanted April.
23 days ago
Saturday Night Live: Will Ferrell plays Jeffrey Epstein in a strong season finale ⊕⊕
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The former cast member returns as host for a strong episode to close out what’s become a strong season with new faces coming into their own
The season finale of Saturday Night Live’s 51st season kicks…
33 days ago
Yekaterinburg Police Arrest Soviet Repression Researcher on ‘Terrorism’ Charges ⊖
Oleg Novoselov studies Stalin’s Great Terror of the 1930s in the Urals and had previously volunteered at the local chapter of the human rights group Memorial.
34 days ago
Shostakovich’s First at 100 – how prodigious genius sounded before Stalin set about silencing it ⊕
The composer himself never matched the joy, optimism and boldness of his first teenage symphony, as the chill of Stalinism settled on his music
This week we mark two extraordinary centenaries. Sir Dav…
37 days ago
‘This is just disarray’: alarm inside Pentagon after Hegseth staff purges ⊖
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Insiders portray defense secretary as increasingly isolated after officers with impeccable reputations forced out
Since Donald Trump’s first term, they have been viewed comfortingly as the “adults in …
4 months ago
IAN WILLIAMS: In China's most brutal purge since Chairman Mao, a string of senior generals have vanished into black hole prisons - so is Xi Jinping locking away anyone who'll oppose his plans to invade Taiwan? ⊖
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Xi Jinping's China is not Stalin's Russia and there is no bullet to the back of the head for rivals - at least not immediately - says IAN WILLIAMS.
5 months ago
‘The antithesis to Nazi ideology’: how Pippi Longstocking was born to stand up to Hitler ○
A new documentary explores how Astrid Lindgren’s beloved children’s books about the pigtailed free spirit were written in response to the darkest days of the second world war
She’s the mischievous lit…
6 months ago
'To quell my screams the Soviet doctor aimed a revolver between my eyes and threatened to blow my brains out': HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE on the British servicemen treated in Stalin's hospitals ⊖⊖
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This chilling testimony comes from the memoir of Morris Mills, who with so many other British seamen was treated for terrible wounds while serving on the Arctic convoys during Second World War.
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ was a pro-Kremlin abomination whose failure is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine | Rajan Menon ⊖⊖
Following criticism, the president accused Ukraine of ingratitude but also added the plan was ‘not my final offer’. Which parts of it will survive?
The US president, Donald Trump, has said “something …