MPs Leaping off the Gravy Train

Perhaps fearing the long arm of the law, old-Etonian Boris Johnson faces a Tory uprising as 50 MPs join new resistance group. The embattled public schoolboy faces another Tory uprising as 50 MPs join a new resistance group calling for an end to coronavirus lockdown measures.

Not a Country of Sissies

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says the severity of the coronavirus pandemic is exaggerated, urging his compatriots to stop being sissies in the face of Covid-19 and pointing out that ‘all of us are going to die one day.’ The is growing cynicism over the profits to be made […]

WWI: Soldiers’ Leisure and Feasts in the Rear

On November 11, 1918, the Compiègne Agreement was signed in northern France, which ended the First World War (1914 – 1918), or, as it was then called, the Great War. For that time, it was the most massive and bloody military conflict of all the previous 15 thousand conflicts known: 38 states, having mobilized 68 million people, fought for economic dominance and territory for more than four years.