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2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola and Salford City co-owner Gary Neville have called for the football season to be suspended instead of staging games without fans as the spread of coronavirus sparks fear across Britain. Premier League football matches are expected to take place as normal across England this weekend despite all domestic Italian football … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S LEGACY by Nicholas Milton (Pen & Sword £25, 279pp) The wheel had turned, and, in a matter of a few weeks, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had gone from the hero promising ‘peace in our time’ to the villain whose attempted appeasement of the rapacious Adolf Hitler had failed. He … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK APPEASING HITLER by Tim Bouverie (Bodley Head £20, 512 pp) Can you imagine a nation split down the middle on a major political conundrum that would decide the course of its history? A rancid, rancorous argument taking place among people and politicians in which each side abused the other as fools … Read more