On the 22nd of August 1960 in the eternal city of Rome, FIFA chose England as the venue for the 1966 World Cup. It easily defeated the bids of both West Germany and Spain.
History says on that the 27th August 1979 the provisional IRA ‘carried out’ two attacks, both North and South of the border, which would be etched into the history books as the day that left 18 British Army personnel dead and the Queen’s cousin assassinated. Lord Mountbatten was the grandson of Queen Victoria, one time commander of the Allied Forces in First Sea Lord, retired Admiral of the Fleet, and the last Viceroy of India and Earl of Burma.
Around 2,500 years ago in a city called Athens, a certain person was executed. Why? Because he was nosey and asked too many questions. Now, there were many philosophers before his time which teachers and academics will know but it really is Socrates who effectively put philosophy on the map. So, let’s call him Saint Socrates the Patron Saint of Philosophy. He was as best as it can be but a weirdo. He had a boxer’s nose, the stomach…
Lord Justice Adrian Bruce Fulford previously cleared by the late Lord Kerr in a cursory enquiry into the top Judge’s connection with “Paedophile Information Exchange” is now to face further questions over the whole sordid debacle. New information has come to light that Fulford may well have withheld valuable and probative evidence, and failed to explain fully his nexus with Ms Nettie Pollard, Steven Adrian Smith, The Gay Liberation Front, and the Public Morals Pamphlet of October 1980 to…
A source at the Home Office has revealed that the Ministry of Justice are unduly delaying the removal of Foreign National Prisoners on a timely basis. The UK Borders Act 2007 makes it mandatory to remove any Foreign National prisoner with a sentence of one year or above. There are currently over 10,000 Foreign National Prisoners subject to removal directions, but the Ministry of Justice delays the paperwork enabling a quick removal. Another source at the Prison Service said,…
The Shroud of Turin has become the single-most important religious relic on the planet. Said to be the cloth that was wrapped around Jesus of Nazareth after his crucifixion it is not surprising that it has become so revered. The Shroud does indeed contain the image of a man and many of the features on the cloth do show someone who was crucified. Is the body image on the Shroud that of a crucified man from the 1st century, when Jesus lived,…