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<strong>The long read</strong>: Something is badly wrong at the heart of one of Britain’s most important ministries. How did it become so broken?

Britain’s best concert hall was destroyed by the Nazis – why hasn’t it been rebuilt? The Queens Hall had near-perfect acoustics, and hosted some of the worlds greatest composers. Its loss was a tragedy 9 May 2021 • 12:00pm The Blitz destroyed many of Britains best-loved buildings – including the Queens Hall Credit: London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Eighty years ago on Monday, London experienced its worst night of the Blitz. Between 11pm on May 10 1941 and 5.50am ...

Words by John Jervis For better or worse, the visual arts haven’t featured large in Britain’s national mythologies of late. Yet, in September 2018, Theresa May launched what is now known as Festival UK* 2022, proclaiming: ‘Just as millions of Britons celebrated their nation’s great achievements in 1951, we want to showcase what makes our country great today.’ This ‘Festival of Brexit’ was met with scorn, hilarity and anger among artistic communities – followed, last year, by inf...

Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London by Owen Hatherley Repeater Books, 2020, 266 pp. Few tourists strolling the south bank of the Thames in London realize that they are going through a carefully constructed showcase for what Owen Hatherley describes in his new book, Red Metropolis: the structures and programs put in place when the political left ran Great Britain’s largest city. On one end of the procession sits County Hall, the massive, longtime home of the London city ...

Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.  1937 The Hindenburg Disaster – “Oh, the Humanity!” was the proclamation from news reporter Herbert Morrison. The giant airship exploded killing 36 people while preparing to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The exact cause of the fire has never been determined. 1941The legendary comedian Bob Hope gave his first USO performance. He would make 57 USO tours between 19...

Pier, lido and suspension bridge were proposed for Aberdeen during Festival of Britain Updated: 04/05/2021, 8:14 am © Hmason/Daily Mail/Shutterstock The cigar-shaped Skylon dominated the landscape during the Festival of Britain in 1951. A radical plan to create a pier, a lido and a new suspension bridge in Aberdeen were among suggestions drawn up as part of a vision for the city’s future during the Festival of Britain in 1951. The national celebrations, which took place between May and Septe...

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S HIRLEY WILLIAMS spent her life at the heart of the liberal establishment. Her mother, Vera Brittain, was a prominent feminist and author of the first world war classic “Testament of Youth”; her father, Sir George Catlin, was an academic political theorist and Labour party activist (some would say suck-up); guests at the family home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, included T.S. Eliot, Jawaharlal Nehru and most of the leading Labour figures of the age. Ms Williams went on to marry two of the Anglo...

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When a festival of the United Kingdom was announced by Theresa May in 2018 you could almost hear the collective sigh of the nation. It was immediately dubbed ‘the festival of Brexit’ and, after May’s successor as prime minister reiterated his support for the event, that name remained unchallenged, if much mocked. Now that the difficulties that are attending our departure from Europe, let alone those of the past dire year, have combined to such baleful effect, a huzza little more than a ye...