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Derek Ingram (1925-2018) – A gentleman journalist known around the world as ‘Mr Commonwealth.’
Derek Ingram outside his home in Marylebone . He was a keen gardener right until the end (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Derek Ingram would have turned 100 on June 20…. Read more >

Christian leaders in Britain stay silent as graves as millions face starvation in Gaza
A statue of the Madonna with a child at Ripon Cathedral in Yorkshire. Three Mother and Child sculptures in copper by the York artist Harold Gosney attract a great response… Read more >

Time for VE celebrations to fade away and for Britons to stop living in the past?
Time to end the Lambeth Walk and to face up to 0ur isolation in Europe and subservience to America. The right-wing journalist Peter Hitchens says that it is… Read more >

Chilhood memories about VE Day 1945: Five year old told to keep quiet about how his mother and father hoped Hitler would win the war
Street parties were held across Britain, marking what Christian vicars called the triumph of good over evil. So many of the men and women who were children in 1945… Read more >