Some folks mis-remember the story of old King Canute. We’ve heard the (surely apocryphal) tale told of Canute The Great ordering the ocean’s waves to stop, and they, of course, didn’t obey his ...

To stop the flooding tide of public, parliamentary and press criticism of the efficiency of the Government’s production machinery. Winston Churchill last week cast himself in the role of Canute. In ...

The press played it up as one of the decade’s worst disasters. In a slow Easter week on Fleet Street, Britain’s newspapers called it another Battle of Britain. A few correspondents even quoted ...

Sveinsson Knut, Canute the Great, King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018 and King of Norway from 1030 until he died in 1035, was perhaps the most successful and effective of the early ...

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Rumours fly as to various public sector pay offers and threats of strike action. The more fundamental problem over the ...