Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Monday, June 22, 2026

A journey along the Welsh Border in 1963

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Wynford Vaughan Thomas and friend travel the length of the border between England and Wales in 1963. But the tone of the commentary could co...
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Friday, April 24, 2026

Russian submarine found in Lake Windermere

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This land sits right next to the Furness railway line - a vital transport link to both BAE Submarines in Barrow and Sellafield nuclear power...
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Thursday, April 02, 2026

The Joy of Six 1498

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Peter Juul argues that Donald Trump sees America not as the leader of a global posse bringing international gangsters to heel, but as a mob...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1487

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"On this occasion Starmer has taken both the correct and popular position and stuck to it despite relentless attacks from the right. Th...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

The Joy of Six 1475

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Degenerate Art  on Donald Trump's concentration camps and what can be done to resist their building: "When you consider the number ...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Chancellor announces £1.5m fund for Britain's elite chess players

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Rishi Sunak established a £500,000 fund to support Britain's elite chess players when he was prime minister. The new Labour government s...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

The Joy of Six 1342

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"Part of this is down to the increasing centralisation of politics. The prime minister’s role has expanded dramatically over the decade...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Forget Chess Masters: Watch a classic Boris Spassky game

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If Chess Masters: The Endgame was designed to encourage people to play the game, then it worked with me. I watched two minutes of it before...
Monday, March 03, 2025

Lech Wałęsa likens White House treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a Soviet-era interrogation

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Embed from Getty Images The former Polish president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa has written to Donald Trump, condemning the US ...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Boris Spassky died yesterday at the age of 88

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Embed from Getty Images Boris Spassky, former world chess champion, died yesterday. His match against Bobby Fischer in 1972 put the game on ...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Cockburn's TV commercial with Robin Bailey and Richard Marner

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This cracked us up in the late 1970s. Though he often played Germans, notably Colonel von Strohm in 'Allo 'Allo!, Richard Marner was...
Monday, September 02, 2024

Spying: Another column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy

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I've just sent off another column to the JCPCP, so it's time to post another of my earlier ones. The idea that Noel Coward had a rol...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

The Joy of Six 1233

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Janan Ganesh argues that the Tories' greatest disservice to the UK has been to misunderstand the US: "A bilateral trade deal with ...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Chess, Freud and paranoia: Another column for the JCPCP

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Embed from Getty Images Another of my Sighcology columns for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy. There are th...
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Friday, January 19, 2024

Bertie Wooster goes to Russia: How Britain tried to reverse the Russian Revolution

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Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews Anna Reid's A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution in the new London Review...
Monday, January 15, 2024

GUEST POST Sex, spies and scandal: The John Vassall Affair

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Historian Alex Grant explains why an often-overlooked spy scandal of the early 1960s matters – and  how it changed British journalism, and ...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Neal Ascherson and fables of the reconstruction of Germany

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This blog's hero Neal Ascherson writes on the former East Germany in the current London Review of Books: Travelling around Mecklenburg ...