The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estatesWilliam Gladstone’s father, John, was an absentee landlord who never visited his estates in...
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Read MoreSecurity expert claims Chinese surveillance may have affected tens of thousands of AmericansChina appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil US mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage...
Read MoreFormer British colony locked in legal and political impasse over election resultThe UK is under pressure to join the US in imposing sanctions on the president of Guyana, who has refused to stand after a disputed election in...
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