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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 >
What would Anglican vicar who advised Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda have to say now about the spread of shoplifting throughout the UK?
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 >