Author: Blueprint Media

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Citizen XLII

Since 2006 the British Government has stripped 42 people of citizenship, 20 of them in 2013. Due process is not required; the Home Secretary need

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Hardy Hoofer

Despite his stage name Mickey Rooney, the veteran movie actor and entertainer who died this week aged 93, was not of Irish American lineage. He

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Dreaming Buyers

Oxford, not London, has been named as the UK’s least affordable city. The average property in Oxford costs £340,864, more than 11 times local salaries,

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Incomparable Will

Albert Gifford, 15, last week exacted an apology from supermarket giant, Tesco, for its alleged “misuse” of English grammar when it claimed that’s its orange

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Danish Daring

Between 70 and 90 per cent of Jewish people in Hungary, the Netherlands, Greece, Latvia and Poland perished in the Holocaust. In Estonia, Belgium, Norway

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Faites vos Jeux

There is one betting shop for every 2,458 of Glasgow’s 595,000 residents. According to recently-published figures, of £158.18 million gambled each year in the city,

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