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The Riddle of Erskine Childers
PETER FROST looks back 40 years to an all-time favourite book of his
Erskine Childers, with his wife Molly, on a Baltic cruise in their yacht Asgard in 1910
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
IN THE summer of 1979, 40 years ago, I went to see a just-released film, The Riddle of the Sands. I had been waiting for the film of one of my favourite books for a very long time.
The 1903 novel by Erskine Childers, like the film, is set in the misty chain of Frisian Islands that run along the North Sea coasts of Holland, Germany and Denmark.
Over the years I have been able to explore some of those islands and what an amazing landscape they are.
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