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UK Diplomat Questions Post of Jews on Iraq Panel

A British diplomat has criticized the appointment of two leading Jewish academics to the UK's Iraq Inquiry panel, stating it may upset the balance of the inquiry. Sir Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, told The Independent newspaper this week that the appointment of Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian and Winston Churchill biographer, and Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor...

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Churchill TV screen test unearthed

Rarely seen footage of Sir Winston Churchill, in his first screen test for television, has been unearthed to mark the 75th anniversary of party political broadcasts.

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135 Year old woman gets pension

A woman in Turkey, who's thought to be 135 years old, has won her bid to get her pension reinstated. Halime Olcay's birth certificate states she was born in 1874 - the same year Herbert Hoover and Winston Churchill were born. She's currently being living in a remote village near Diyarbakir in Turkey's South-eastern Anatolia Region.

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Who Is Running Russia?

Dimitri Medvedev and Vladimir Putin Medvedev vs. Putin? Mystery Returns To The Kremlin. -- Christian Science Monitor Is Medvedev the lapdog of Putin? Or is he biting his mentor's ankles? No one knows, which makes taking sides a dangerous guessing game, particularly for the White House. Once again, Russia seems to be living up to Winston Churchill's famous description of being "a riddle, wrapped...

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Too many Jews'??

Oh my God and one member of the UK panel is.....a Zionist! A British diplomat has criticized the appointment of two leading Jewish academics to the UK's Iraq Inquiry panel, stating it may upset the balance of the inquiry. Sir Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, told The Independent newspaper this week that the appointment of Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian and Winston...

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Margaret Thatcher returns to 10 Downing Street

Sadly, it is not permanent. Unless an image of the likeness captures something of the spirit, and that spirit casts a presence of perpetual influence and greatness. But what is this greatness? Why has Margaret Thatcher been granted honours during in her lifetime which her predecessors have attained only years and usually decades after their death? She is the only former prime minister to be immortalised...

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Thatcher back at Downing Street for portrait unveiling

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher returned to her old offices in Downing Street on Monday for the unveiling of a new portrait of the "Iron Lady" at a reception hosted by Gordon Brown. Thatcher, who led the Conservative government from 1979 until 1990, becomes only the third British leader of the 20th century to have her portrait displayed at Number 10, after David Lloyd George...

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Russia, Ukraine seek to end gas feud at Yalta

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was to hold rare talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday aimed at preventing a repeat of last winter's gas crisis. They will meet at the Livadia Palace in the Crimean resort of Yalta, the venue for the 1945 conference between Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill where the Big Three leaders redrew the postwar map.

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Blair Redux?

Is Tony Blair about to make the most remarkable political come back since Winston Churchill? The Blair Camp is playing down his chance of being chosen as the new President of the EU council variously putting it at “1 in 10” and “less than likely”. But the fact remains – as Sky News has consistently reported unlike almost all our British rivals – that the name of...

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Russia, Ukraine prepare for energy conference

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko for talks on energy amid unease in Europe over possible cuts in gas supplies this winter. The two premiers are due to meet at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, the venue for the historic Yalta Conference in 1945 between Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, said a Ukrainian official....

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Winston Churchill Liveblogs World War II: November 13, 1939

November 13, 1939: On Friday, November 13, my relations with Mr. Chamberlain had so far ripened that he and Mrs. Chamberlain came to dine with us at Admiralty House, where we had a comfortable fiat in the attics. We were a party of four. Although we had been colleagues under Mr. Baldwin for five years, my wife and I had never met the Chamberlains in such Circumstances before. by happy chance...

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Some Myths About The Afghan War

We need to disabuse ourselves of several untruths being told about our war efforts in Afghanistan. One is that we are fighting for democracy. Democracy is fine for Norway and Denmark but it is bad in war-torn places that are undeveloped because it becomes a patronage system for kickbacks being handed out to corrupt insiders. What we want is a competent government that can secure its own boundaries...

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"Kurt, d' Mauer ist auf!"*--A Memory

Further to part of yesterday's post, comes now Paul Hollander, in an editorial published November 2, 2009 in The Washington Post (H/T Volokh ) writes: The Berlin Wall that came down 20 years ago this month was an apt symbol of communism. It represented a historically unprecedented effort to prevent people from "voting with their feet" and leaving a society they rejected. [Snip] Soviet communism...

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Berlin Wall Season: Victims and Victors

The end of World War 2 was meant to be a victory of liberation from the hellfire of war on the European continent, and from the militaristic and genocidal tyranny of the Nazis and their allies in Italy, Croatia and elsewhere. For half of Europe it meant peace but only between states, not within. The United States initially took a fairly benign view of the Soviet Union and the Red Army’s presence...

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Salim Mansur on the fall of the wall

A momentous event , but are we forgetting the evil that was communism? Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, a captive people of a divided continent literally with their hands dismantled the Berlin Wall. This wall represented not merely the totalitarian tyranny of Soviet Communism, but the eternal ugliness and evil of that inherent disposition in man to deny the freedom of another to live his life as he wishes....