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Welcome to Josef Stalin’s ‘Hotel California’ in Moscow
BOOK REVIEW: The Red Hotel -The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps (Headline, 2023 pp. 464 £22.00) Review by Trevor Grundy The 4th century BC… Read more >
Vicar who advised Kenneth Kaunda had kind things to say about hungry shoplifters
John Papworth (with his kitten called Isolde) and Kenneth Kaunda in London in the early 1960s – fellow Christians and friends for life ( Picture: Trevor Grundy library) By… Read more >
Look back 70 years and remember one of the 20th century’s most obnoxious betrayals of public trust
RIP: Encounter magazine 1953-1991: The cultural-political monthly Encounter magazine was published from 1953 to 1991. Seventy years after its foundation, it is best remembered because of stunning revelations that, for… Read more >