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British Prime Minister William Gladstone was born on this date 213 years ago in 1809. He was both a strong opponent of slavery and a statesman who tried to get people to see during the American Civil War that the confederacy’s determination to be independent could not be ignored. At the War's outset, the British politician opposed restoration of The Union by military force from the North. He is famous for saying: "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace." Iran's Women...

George Orwell set out a nightmarish vision of Britain under totalitarian rule in his epic novel 1984, brilliantly explaining how ideologues weaponise history as propaganda. ‘Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every painting repainted, every statue and street building renamed,’ he wrote. ‘Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.’ Tragically, today’s social justice warriors seem bent on turning fiction into reality. In their war against Britain’s heritage and identity, they seek to re-fashion the past according to their own narrow values.

George Orwell set out a nightmarish vision of Britain under totalitarian rule in his epic novel 1984, brilliantly explaining how ideologues weaponise history as propaganda. ‘Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every painting repainted, every statue and street building renamed,’ he wrote. ‘Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.’ Tragically, today’s social justice warriors seem bent on turning fiction into reality. In their war against Britain’s heritage and identity, they seek to re-fashion the past according to their own narrow values.

New ID on Jack the Ripperby Standard ReporterCrime writer Patricia Cornwell claims to have unearthed proof that Jack the Ripper was in fact the painter Walter Sickert. The best-selling American novelist spent almost £3million in her investigation, flying US forensic experts to London to examine the notorious Ripper letters. She claims they bear the same distinctive water mark as Sickert's stationery. Ms Cornwell also bought 30 of the artist's works, ripping one of them up completely in her hunt for clues. Twenty years after the 1888 crimes Sickert painted a series of gruesome pictures of a murdered prostitute. Ms Cornwell ...

It is the greatest murder mystery of all time, a puzzle that has perplexed criminologists for more than a century and spawned books, films and myriad theories ranging from the plausible to the utterly bizarre. But now, thanks to modern forensic science, The Mail on Sunday can exclusively reveal the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the serial killer responsible for at least five grisly murders in Whitechapel in East London during the autumn of 1888. DNA evidence has now shown beyond reasonable doubt which one of six key suspects commonly cited in connection with the Ripper’s reign of terror...