Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship and Betrayal (2025, Ballentine) by Matthew Goodman. Two single women, one an American, the other a Brit living in Paris, both caught up in occupied France during the Second World War. They were part of a network getting soldiers out of France, and they paid dearly for […]
Paris Undercover (book review)
Which political party seeking our vote in tomorrow’s local elections is the most ‘Cornish’? Putting policies aside, most of which are merely variants of ‘build more’, which has the greatest proportion of Cornish candidates? One, admittedly very crude, method for assessing this is to compare the surnames of candidates against the 850 or so surnames […]
Cornwall’s local elections 2025
Soziale Verwerfung Bloß um nicht »soziale Ungerechtigkeiten« oder »soziale Ungleichheit« sagen zu müssen, spricht man von »Verwerfungen«. Es wird verschleiert, dass es Akteure gibt, die dafür verantwortlich sind. Dass die einen viel haben und die anderen wenig; dass jene über Privilegien verfügen, die den anderen weggenommen werden, erscheint als eine Art Naturphänomen – ein geologischer […]
Wörterbuch der Gegenwart
How the signal for revolt was sent before the internet, & the telephone: Newport 1839 In early November 1839 Chartists marched to Newport South Wales in what some have seen as an attempt at a rising. It failed as the crack regiment of the British Army shot dead some of the Chartists. Some of the […]
How the signal for revolt was sent before the internet & the telephone: Newport 1839
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