Documents detailing an extraordinary collusion between Margaret Thatcher’s government and breakaway miners’ union the UDM, have been uncovered in the National Archives by researcher Steven Daniels. Set up to rival Arthur Scargill’s NUM, this smaller union secretly backed privatisation and agreed to co-operate with Thatcher in exchange for preferential treatment as collieries across the country were being closed down. The documents shed new light on what was really going on behind the scenes during the miners’ strike.

Put a lamb in with a group of lions and the outcome seems grimly inevitable. But if you can solve this classic game theory puzzle then you might be able to show otherwise. Amirlan Seksenbayev walks us through it.

The story of Dunkirk has been shaped by the idea of the “British spirit” during World War II. But far more important elements have been mostly forgotten. In reality, the events that led up to the evacuation of 338,226 troops from the beaches in France were nothing short of a humiliating military defeat, and without the French army, the outcome could have been even worse.

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