La Liga president Javier Tebas calls for Fifa president Gianni Infantino to quit, and claims the governing body is "destroying the football industry".

West Indies cricketing great, Sir Garry Sobers, has died at the age of 89.

One of the great cricketers Garry Sobers has died at 89. I did see him play but the memory stretches no further than that unfortunately. Sobers was not particularly political (itself of course a po…

Henry Hetherington wasa respected and admired London radical who as a member of the London Working Men's Association became a leading Chartist moderate

“In the beginning of Time, the great Creator Reason, made the Earth to be a Common Treasury, to preserve Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Man, the lord that was to govern this Creation; for Man had Domin…

The fifth annual John Halstead Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor John Goodridge, President of the John Clare Society.  Professor John Goodridge. Organised by the Society for the…

RAUL CASTRO was born on this day in the small Cuban village of Biran in Holguin Province in 1931.If there was ever a time when we needed to celebrate the life and contribution of this heroic revolutio...

MAY Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, carried special significance in light of heightened US aggression. Over...

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The 2026 Fifa World Cup was supposed to provide a tourism boom for the United States, but now the fear is that may never materialise.

A Southern Class 387 train in Brighton is given a rebrand before joining public ownership on 31 May.

Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.

The May 1917 London Bus strike seems to have been sparked when the London General Omnibus Company refused to recognise the Vehicle Workers Union. I haven’t yet been able to find out much about it, …