On Thursday 20 March at 09:01 the solar crossed the equator going north to mark the vernal equinox. This was the purpose within the 12 months at which day and evening grew to become of equal size and, going ahead, will imply days changing into longer than nights – astronomical...
Richard Derecki: Arab Christmas by Candlelight – OnLondon
Christmas is over. The decorations are down, the playing cards (fewer in quantity once more this 12 months) are within the recycling and a few London Christmas bushes are nonetheless beached on avenue corners like misshapen whales, helpless and misplaced. But on a chilly and icy early January evening, a...
Richard Derecki: Lasting intrigue of London’s most notorious suburban spies – OnLondon
Between 1954 and 1961, working from an unassuming bungalow at 45 Cranley Drive, Ruislip, Lona and Morris Cohen smuggled out an enormous haul of British nuclear secrets and techniques to their KGB paymasters. Working beneath the aliases Helen and Peter Kroger, the names taken from a New Zealander couple who...