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Elliott Erwitt obituary: Magnum photographer who took famous Nixon picture

It proved to be unfilmable, despite the words of one Hollywood figure who said: ‘It has everything. It has sex, Freud – and Nazis!’

The late Billy Naughton, College Road, said he spluttered into his cup of tea, when he instantly recognised the upper-class, nasal drawl, of William Joyce reporting continuous Nazi victories on Radio Hamburg, Reichsrundfunk, during its English-language broadcast in October 1939. He was ridiculed as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ and was the butt of Musical Hall jokes, yet he was listened to and despised for his clever mix of fact and lies.

NADINE Dorries once wrote to Jacob Rees-Mogg to call him a “f***wit”, it has been reported.

Labour is too weak to win and too strong to die The Hartlepool by-election shows Labour is rudderless in an era in which cultural values, not class, shape voting patterns.  Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Keir Starmer visits a building development project on the banks of the River Wear on 1 May 2021 in Durham. Commander John Kerans was an assistant naval attaché in Nanking, China in 1949 who took control of HMS Amethyst when the ship came under fire on the Yangtze river during the latter stages of the Chinese Civil War. After being detained for ten weeks, Commander Kerans led a...