News about Neville Chamberlain

Notoriously territorial Larry, 17, has served the Cabinet Office since 2011, now living in Britain's must famous address under six prime ministers. The no-nonsense moggy has gained a reputation for warning off rivals, famously taking on and chasing away a huge fox in 2022. His relationships with other cats has also been testy - maintaining a four-year feud with his former nemesis, the Foreign Office's Chief Mouser Palmerston, who retired from his post in 2020. And now Starmer's first piece of high-profile diplomacy could be to convince Larry to put aside his differences as he welcomes his counterpart to his new home, as the PM says JoJo is 'revered' by his children.

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Time and again, our leaders make the same mistakes. History should have taught them long ago that appeasement emboldens dictators. The only way to make ourselves secure is by arming ourselves properly and responding to aggression with dauntless courage. Iran has felt emboldened to launch this ferocious attack for one key reason: the West has spent years trying to placate(itals) its odious mullahs, rather than making it clear that their malign actions will have sharp consequences. In recent weeks, all too belatedly, President Biden has stated that Washington's commitment to Israel is 'iron-clad'.

The medieval home has a wealth of original features, including vaulted ceilings and original stone windows. The church was built in the 14th century but in the 1950s it fell into disuse, remaining derelict for decades. It was remodeled into a private home with four bedrooms and a huge entertaining space more recently.

Amichai Chikli (inset), Israel's prominently hardline member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, said earlier this week that the capital was no longer a safe place for Jews due to the erosion of free expression in Britain. 'The anti-Semitism in the West today is the worst since the 1930s,' he told journalists at a Europe Israel Press Association conference in Jerusalem. Chikli, a comedian known for taking stridently against any critique of Israel, went on to warn British officials of the dangers of radicalisation, and that immigration must be scrutinized more closely to discourage extremists from entering the country. Chikli is vehemently opposed to any criticism of Israel's activities in Palestine as part of Netanyahu's far-right government. Last month he slammed British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron, comparing his suggestion that the UK could recognise Palestinian statehood to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler prior to the outbreak of World War II (pro-Palestine protests in London pictured)

Today, Tom Tugendhat applied the heat on Rishi Sunak, warning that defense expenditures must rise 'now'. In a round of TV interviews, the defense minister gave the Prime Minister a new headache over funding for Britain's military. Despite Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's decision that defence spending should rise to 2.5 percent of GDP 'now... as soon as possible.' Mr Tugendhat, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran who had broken cover last week, said that the UK must'lead the way' in increasing military funding. He called on Britain to invest at a'much faster rate' in a joint article with Foreign Office Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan. Mr Tugendhat said this morning that he did not say if Downing Street had pre-approved the essay. At least a dozen ministers and MPs have publicly expressed their support for his and Ms Trevelyan's call. It has also emerged how some Conservatives are so dissatisfied with Mr Sunak's inability to raise defense spending in last week's Budget that they have dubbed PM's 'Neville Sunak'. This is in reference to former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who struggled to stand up to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the run-up to the Second World War.

Ministers and Tory backbenchers are increasingly concerned about Rishi Sunak's inability to increase defense spending in last week's Budget. At least a dozen ministers and MPs have publicly expressed their support for Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Tom Tugendhat, who have requested that spending be increased to 2.5 percent of GDP'and beyond.' In an online article, both the Foreign Office minister and security minister took the call over the weekend in an apparent attack on the lack of new funds for defense. Some backbench MPs were so angry that they branded the PM 'Neville Sunak' in honor of former prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who struggled to stand up to Hitler in the run-up to the Second World War. According to reports, one MP told colleagues that they would eventually hand over a letter from Mr Sunak to the 1922 Committee, asking that he be dismissed because of the issue.

The UK's defense budget, at less than 2.3 percent of GDP, is far too small for our global obligations and defense obligations,' Lord Dannatt writes. We may be smug that we outstread the Nato figure of 2 percent of GDP to be invested on defense by member nations, but that figure is minimum, not a goal to be accomplished.'

Local authorities around the country are facing one of the worst financial challenges in the last decade as an increasing number of councils have declared bankruptcy in the last six years. Northampton, Croydon, Thurrock, Woking, Slough, Nottingham, Northamptonshire, and Birmingham City Council, Europe's largest local authority, have all sent 114 notices, prohibiting a council from any further spending since 2018. Insiders have also reported to MailOnline that up to 30 more councils may follow suit over the next few years as they try to strike a balance between their books. Any council leaders have warned that even their most historical assets, some of which they have owned for centuries, are not safe from being sold off.

We no longer have an empire; only a nation state - the United Kingdom - has one. But nation states must have insurance if they want to prevent the kind of strategic disaster that struck Britain in early 1942, when Singapore surrendered to Japan and multiple British colonies around the world, not to mention the British Isles themselves.

It was a call that struck at all patriotic young men: Your Country Needs You. These words, which accompanied Army chief Lord Kitchener's face on posters all around the country, had helped to encourage one million people to participate in the First World War in January 1915. However, with casualties in their hundreds of thousands, the tide of volunteers was not strong, and so, in January 1916, conscription was introduced amid widespread resistance in some quarters. Some 2.5 million men had been ordered to serve by law by the time the Great War came to an end in 1918. As the government begins to'mobilize the troops' in the event of a wider conflict against Russia in the midst of Ukraine's war. Both men aged between 18 and 41 were called up in 1939, 1939, before unmarried women and widows of the age of 30 were also encouraged to serve in some manner. And although the war against Hitler came to an end in 1945, the National Service, which was based on a different name, was launched in 1947 and continued until 1960. More than: Men enlisted in 1916 (left); new recruits queuing to join conscription in 1939 (top right); National Service recruits in 1953.

As pressure rises to confiscate frozen Russian assets, David Cameron cautioned against a 1930s-style appeasement of Vladimir Putin. During a breakfast meeting of world leaders in Davos, Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko told Ukraine that the war against its invaders was 'the war of our generation." And he nodded as Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski chastised 'pocket Chamberlains' who want Ukraine to give up territory in a talks. Neville Chamberlain reportedly claimed to have obtained 'peace in our time' as prime minister by committing to the German annexation of a portion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. "This is the struggle of our generation,' Lord Cameron said.' This is like being a foreign minister or prime minister in the 1930s and fighting the war. And here's what we learned from that: you get more of it if you appease violence.'

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The destiny of the UK has always rested on the world's oceans, thanks to our island geography. We are a proud maritime nation, from fish netted in the north Atlantic to outstanding navigators and admirals. The country was spared from invasion and scope to establish its own rules under control by mastery of the seas. Britons will never be slaves' as long as Britannia reigned the waves.' Commerce could also increase due to our naval expertise, raising the country's wealth and influence. Navigation freedom is, then, embedded in Britain's DNA. Trade between nations not only makes the world more prosperous, but it also raises the risk of instability. So, Houthi rebels sank commercial ships in the Red Sea, a vital maritime artery, and it would have been at odds with Britain's beliefs to stand idly by.

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Bob Kirk, the 98-year-father of three boys (pictured inset in 1930 with a traditional cone of candy on the day he started school), squeals as he focuses on his wife Ann's unbreakable marriage (inset, right on their wedding day in 1950). Even now, it is a miracle to me.' From the living room of their bungalow in Northwood, north-west London, we've propped each other up over the years.' The'miracle' is love, a tale of passion that resulted from a shared experience of having to flee Nazi Germany. Both Bob and Ann, 95, were among the 10,000 mostly Jewish children who escaped from Hitler in Britain on what became known as the Kindertransport. Bob talks to MailOnline with a calmness that many years his junior would envy eighty-five years from Harwich's first arrival of 196 children. Ann - a'very pretty young lady', who came to an end in 1948, when Bob's service as an interpreter in the British Army came to an end. They shared no word of each other again the first time they met in a room, because, Bob says mischievously, they were up for pursuing some other girl.' But, six months later, she returned, and the pair began to chat. The pair were married by the end of the following year.

At his country seat in the Borders in the summer of 1990, I interviewed Lord Home of the Hirsel. Alec Douglas-Home had been Prime Minister for a year from 1963 to 1964. That was undoubtedly the least interesting part of him. Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, Dwight Eisenhower, President Kennedy, and, of course, Churchill had met virtually everybody of note in a political career dating back to 1931. As aide to Neville Chamberlain at Munich, he had even shaken hands with Hitler: 'The most loathsome, obnoxious, disgusting man I ever met…'

Since the council announced bankruptcy earlier this month, the Birmingham City Council House, which was built over a century ago, could be included as one of a number of assets to be sold to balance the books. The restaurant is in a prime location' in the city's center, surrounded by a slew of bars, restaurants, and shops, and could'easibly be sold off to a hotel chain,' according to a Conservative source, who may be accompanied by a variety of bars, restaurants, and shops.' The Labour-run council has compiled a £760 million bill for equal pay exploitation allegations from female employees that it will not settle, and it expects a £87 million deficit in this year's budget.

AN WILSON: We are not meant to believe in The Great Man Theory of history any more - the faraway sage Thomas Carlyle's assertion that kings are born, not made. However, a dispassionate reading of events gives you pause in deciding about 1940's summer in the run-up to that snapshot of St Paul's. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, was dying. Lord Halifax, his likely successor, made no secret of his belief that the game was up, and that Britain should make peace with the Nazis and bring the war to an end. One man had the confidence and pig-headedness to know that this was going to be a global disaster for the world. Winston Churchill was the man.

The paper is stamped on paper with the Prime Minister's official stamp and the address of ten Downing Street. In May 1945, Churchill signed it, and copies were then sent to tens of thousands of people who had written letters of congratulations following Nazi Germany's defeat. "I've been deeply touched by all the messages of good will that have reached me at this moment." Thank you so much for your kind words.' The letter is being sold via US firm The Raab Collection and valued at $200,000 (£160,000)

Although nearly two-thirds of millennials claim to have a keen interest in the Second World War and events such as Dunkirk (pictured left and top right), 41% of the British Army fought for the Allies during WWII wartime operations that resulted in victory in Europe Day (above, right). Half of those polled (49%), accessed via OnePoll, believe it's important to have a good grasp of World War II; however, the majority (36%) of 18-34-year-olds shows that having a good knowledge of World War II is detrimental.

When he accused President Joe Biden of being soft on Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Republican lawmaker invoked the name of Neville Chamberlain, who is remembered in history as the British prime minister who attempted to appease Hitler. It comes after Russian warplanes intercepted an American drone in international airspace, causing it to crash into the Black Sea. Biden's inability, according to Rep. Carlos Gimenez, who is a member of the Homeland Security Committee, is to blame for Russia's boldness.

Bontddu Hall, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, is up for auction, but the price has been reduced by £200,000 to £750,000. Former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has also visited the site. The Christie spokesperson said: 'Bontddu Hall Hotel was once a thriving company and could return to it.' However, due to the building's condition, it will need to be completely rebuilt before any business could trade. 'Depending on the buyer's needs, the website has a variety of options.'

Professor Tim Luckhurst of Durham University is an increasing rarity among media academics: he actually loves the newspaper. Reporting the Second World War (inset) is his latest book, which discusses the role of newspapers in the Second World War. The Press arrived at the war knowing that it was a war for national survival, a good war, and possibly the last one. So no newspaper, aside from the Communist Party's Daily Worker, wanted to undermine the war effort. Circulations were also high: Four out of every five British households read a newspaper. The Press was both defenders of democracy and ardent supporters of their readers' interests. As a source of information, newspapers were much more popular than radio. The morning paper was read by actresses at the Revudeville theatre (left). During the war, the MOD published a series of "British Official Photographs" in honor of Britain's free and independent press (top right).

The naval and land clashes at Narvik, Norway, in April 1940, resulted in the Allies' first victory over German forces. However, when France was enslaved by the Nazis, the Allies were compelled to evacuate Norway, leaving the country at Hitler's mercy. Now, a new Netflix film tells the dramatic tale of the Battles of Narvik and the fight of ordinary Norwegians to protect themselves. Thousands of viewers flock online to see Narvik, according to critics. The film is currently the second most watched film on Netflix. Above: After being attacked by the Royal Navy, burning German ships in Narvik, flames are visible; French troops are holding a Nazi Swastika flag at Narvik (top right); the trailer for the new film, which stars Krstine Hartgen as the fictional Ingrid Tofte.