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‘Desolate, despairing and awful’: Britain’s uninhabitable island

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

In 1978, an invitation was sent to some 200 members of Oxford’s Dangerous Sports Club, which simply read: ‘Tea, Rockall, Black Tie.’ The good news was that invitees had never visited this part of the UK; the bad was that it is way out west. Forget Land’s End, or the Western Isles, or even far-flung Fermanagh.

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