Cliveden visitors in 2017. As home of Nancy Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 30s—a group of political intellectuals. Later, during the early 1960s, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo Affair. During the 1970s, it was occupied by Stanford University, which used it as an overseas campus. Today the house is leased by the National Trust as a five-star hotel. Cliveden means "valley among cliffs" and refers to the dene (valley) which cuts through part of the estate, east of the house. Cliveden has been spelled differently over
Party for the Organization of a Free Brittany Party for the Organization of a Free Brittany The Party for the Organization of a Free Brittany ("Parti pour l'organisation d'une Bretagne libre") is a Breton political party that advocates political sovereignty for Brittany. Its initials "POBL" form a backronym, as the word "pobl" in Breton means "people" or "community". Already a right-wing party at its foundation, it progressively drifted toward the far-right and two of its members were involved in an assault against leftist militants of the Union Démocratique Bretonne at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in 1999. Never very influential, the party was crippled by the departure of