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LISBON – A Treaty To Far?

After twelve years of Government Britain has become a nation overburdened with debt, an overgrown public sector it cannot afford, a bureaucracy that stifles efficiency and enterprise and a profligate...

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BT Complaints - Submit Your's!

Submit your BT complaint here. So many of you have experienced terrible BT customer service during 2007 - 2009. This page shares all your BT complaints on one page helping others with the same problems.

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Cyber Bullying: Much More Than Innocent Teasing

Bullying is defined by  Wikipedia as the repeated harassment of a weaker person or group by a stronger person or group. It can be in the form of verbal abuse, physical abuse, manipulation and coercion,...

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KGB Infiltrated the British Labour Party

The Diary of a Kremlin Insider had been sitting in the US National Archives for years, untranslated. Its author, Anatoly Chernyaev, was once "deputy minister of the Soviet International Department and, later...

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Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated in England and Commonwealth countries (Canada, Australia and New Zealand). It officially falls on December 26th, the day after Christmas, or the first weekday following...

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England! Great Britain! United Kingdom! What does it all mean?

The names currently used to describe the islands are "The Kingdom of Great Britain" "The United Kingdom" (UK) and also "Great Britain"! Confused!? Read on... The United Kingdom is a union of four constituent...

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World War I Christmas Miracle On the Western Front

On Christmas Day, December 25, 1914, there came a sudden truce during World War I...

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All Quiet on the Western Front.

Was everything really quiet on the Western Front in World War I? Except for the Christmas Truce of 1914, perhaps not...

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Halloween Customs in Great Britain – The Celtic Lands

Halloween in the 21st century conjures up images of grinning pumpkin lanterns and kids in costumes going out ‘Trick or Treating’.  It is now very much a commercial event, with costumes, make-up and candy. But in Britain the origins of Halloween go back into the mists of history...

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The Guano Islands Act of 1856 - Congress's Bird Poop Law

If you take a close look at a map of the Pacific Ocean you will notice that, next to the names of many isolated islands, the name United States or the initials U.S. appear in parenthesis next to the names of...

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