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    The latest edition of the Saffron Walden Historical Journal (No 49 – Spring 2025) is now on sale (£5) at the Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, Harts bookshop, the Town Museum and the Saffron Walden Historical Society.
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16 Mar

Ivan Babcock of the US Army's 165th Signal Photo Company poses with Crown (Reichskrone) of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave in Siegan, Germany, 3 April 1945. (It's an identical copy of the Crown was made in 1915, by order of Wilhelm II for display in Aachen. The real one spent war…

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16 Mar

Sublime vulgarity ... almost pleasing in its wonderfully ridiculous macaronic name ...

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11 Mar

Trade description violations on both counts, but a deliciously silly ad.

Magister Johannes @nassaujuan

come on

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11 Mar

That would be the ally Condoleeza Rice, as Secretary of State, so shamefully forgot to include in the list of the countries that stood with the US at 9/11?

Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan

No Brit can be neutral in the trade dispute between the US and Canada. Trump instigated it, Canada is the wronged party.
I'd make the same appeal to every patriotic American. Do you truly think it fair to turn on an ally who stood with you after 9/11? If not, speak up.

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