The Shortest History of England

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It may be time to recognise what voting maps show quite clearly: the English have always voted as much on tribal lines as any of the Celts. “We” are not a single people at all and never really have been. Or we can insist, against all the historical evidence, that we are one nation, a nation that, as Churchill saw in 1912, will almost always be ruled by the party of the south. The much-loved labrador that sniffed out her owner's breast cancer, saving her life and inspiring a new charity that's gone on to save countless more I'm A Celeb's Nella Rose and Josie Gibson in sexism row as they praise campmates for being 'real men' - but viewers criticise 'double standards'

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