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Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism in Das Kapital is one of the most influential texts in the entirety of human history. Source: Ürfan1917 / CC BY-SA 4.0.
19 SEP 2024 · 5 MIN

Das Kapital: What Did Marx Actually Have to Say?

Politics in the modern world is increasingly divisive. In the US political system labels matter, and it can be the death knell for a political career to be called “socialist” in reference…
Used toilet paper was stored in bins outside military latrines, which was fine until you had no toilet paper and started using sensitive documents. Operation Tamarisk had the dirty job of retrieving these. Source: SuSanA Secretariat / CC BY 2.0.
23 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Operation Tamarisk: You Flush It, We Flaunt It

The 20th century saw the concept of warfare evolve to a horrifying new level. With the advent of globalization, automation and mechanization the art of war was refined to an almost obsessive…
Lionel “Buster” Crabb in diving gear off Gibraltar, 1944 (Coote, R G G (Lt) / Public Domain)
3 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Wet Work: The Story of Buster Crabb

In early 1956 Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party, and the Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin arrived on a diplomatic mission to Britain aboard the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze. For the duration…