Harold Wilson

Brexit Day countdown: How we got here, the complete history

After nearly 50 years of membership, Britain leaves the European Union on Friday

Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay still

British have little conception of their own history beyond a few overly-fetishised events

Awright, Boris! The meaning of Boris Johnson’s walkabout video

It’s hard not to think of Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack miniskirt as you watch the PM

All Whites may be in the All Blacks’ shadow yet they have a proud history

The bulk of the New Zealand team is drawn from Wellington Phoenix as they are the country’s only professional side

David Mitchell: ‘The internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation’

Peep Show star is ‘depressed’ by Brexit but tries to focus on the ‘greatest aim’ of being funny

On this day 50 years ago: Cork residents offer to house Northern children at risk

August 16th, 1969: Donnacha Ó Beacháin describes the day’s events as they unfolded

On this day 50 years ago: Loyalist mob burns down Bombay Street

August 15th, 1969: Donnacha Ó Beacháin describes the day’s events as they unfolded

On this day 50 years ago: Six killed in North as British troops arrive

August 14th 1969: Drawing on contemporaneous reports, Donnacha Ó Beacháin describes the day’s events as they unfolded

Love across the wire: A British soldier’s Derry story

‘Half the regiment married local girls,’ says Michael who arrived in the North aged 20 in 1969

Stocktake: Johnson playing a dangerous game with sterling

Beyond Meat insiders cash in

Irish football fans need to grow the hell up about England football team

It’s mean-spirited to hate the idea of sporting success boosting a troubled nation

Buoyant jobs data conceal investment caution ahead of Brexit

London Briefing: Key indicator is strong for an economy slowing on most other measures

Gillian Anderson ‘to play Margaret Thatcher in The Crown’

X-Files actor reportedly to take on role in fourth series of award-winning Netflix blockbuster

New course looks at Civil Rights movement and early Troubles

Key players in protests or politics 50 years ago will lecture at Stranmillis University

‘The last of the Whigs’ who refused to engage in Thatcher’s ‘Little England’

Obituary: Lord Peter Carrington used common sense to avoid conflict and strife

Tories foiled plans to repatriate Casement’s body for years

Stonewalling ended when Harold Wilson took power in 1964 and revealed location of body

The Lemass Tapes will reshape Irish history

The tapes, recorded by hotelier Dermot Ryan in 1967, are an exceptional political testament

‘Tough nuts’ Haughey and Thatcher get reacquainted as London says it’s business as usual

The nightmare for any Irish government was the extradition of an innocent citizen who would be wrongly jailed

Christine Keeler, former model at heart of Profumo affair, dies at 75

Affairs with Russian diplomat and British MP caused cold-war political scandal

Labour MP who put Northern Ireland centre stage in British politics

Obituary: Kevin McNamara. Born: September 5th, 1934. Died: August 6th, 2017

Dan Mulhall: the ambassador who defied categorisation

London Letter: Praise as Mulhall moves from Brexit Britain to Trump’s America

Smugness over Theresa May’s EU difficulties is misplaced

With a ‘bloody difficult woman’ negotiating Brexit, Ireland will need to play hardball too

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