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August 2024

  • GERMANY-HISTORY<br>Picture taken on February 10, 1962 shows the Glienicke bridge in Berlin after US pilot Gary Francis Powers was swapped for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. The Glienicke Bridge, which during the Cold War linked West Berlin with East German territory, made it the ideal location for dozens of spy swaps. AFP PHOTO / DPA GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read DPA/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Prisoner swaps between Russia and west started in 1962 during cold war

    Two groups of people gathered on a bridge separating West Berlin and East Germany for exchange of Russian spy and American pilot

July 2024

  • Head and shoulders shot of Harold Wilson smoking a pipe

    Sad last days of Harold Wilson revealed by Cabinet Office archives

  • Four young children having their picture taken in black and white in 1968.

    Greeks reflect on democracy’s new dawn 50 years after its return

  • Black and white image of Harold Wilson at home

    Former PM Harold Wilson sold private papers to help fund his care

  • Roland Dumas in his office as French foreign minister, 1988.

    Roland Dumas obituary

  • 'Spy cops' scandal
    Extent of police infiltration of CND under Thatcher ‘truly shocking’

  • I suffered 13 years in opposition – here’s my advice to my despairing fellow Tories

    David Lidington
  • Much of Michael Heseltine’s advice to Angela Rayner is good, but he is wrong about local councils

  • Why Labour wants to hang the Tory legacy around the Conservatives’ necks for years

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Labour will rightly be judged by how it fixes our problems. But never forget who left the UK in such a rotten state

    Polly Toynbee
  • Tony Blair’s new dawn of 1997 offers landslide lessons for Keir Starmer

  • The Guardian view on Frank Cottrell-Boyce as children’s laureate: a timely champion

  • From Baldwin to Blair and more: the biggest landslides in British election history

June 2024

  • Ed Davey sits in chair in TV studio with BBC logo in background

    Lib Dems have regained trust of voters after coalition years, says Ed Davey

    Leader tells BBC he was ‘not proud’ of every decision he took in government from 2010 to 2015 and had made sure his party listened to voters again
  • A police officer pulls a bloodied miners by the shirt surrounded by other officers

    Strike: An Uncivil War review – brutal confrontation on the miners’ strike picket lines

    Former miners and police officers recall Orgreave, one of the nastiest events in postwar British history, in Daniel Gordon’s forthright documentary
  • Patrick Duffy seated in an armchair with a small dog sitting alongside, which looks to be a black West Highland terrier

    ‘I’m blessed. I’m still here’: ex-MP Patrick Duffy, 103, publishes memoirs

    Oldest surviving MP can clearly recall the 1926 general strike, part of his long and immensely eventful life

May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak walks up a dockyard ramp wearing a buoyancy aid.

    The Observer view on the Tories: A chance to pass judgment on 14 years of misrule

  • Big Ben and Houses of Parliament in London

    Can Labour bring Britain the major reset we need?

  • Richard Rosser was born into a family of rail enthusiasts: they chose not to own a car, preferring rail travel.

    Lord Rosser obituary

  • A woman holds a bouquet of flowers in the campaign colours as families affected by the infected blood scandal hear the findings of the six-year inquiry.

    Politicians should ‘hang heads in shame’ over UK infected blood scandal, victims say

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