The Boa Photo Library has around 150,000 images, the result of sixty years of photography. No need for our editor to find free-to-use images for my articles. I’m my own photo agency,

There used to be a joke about the definition of a World Bank expert: someone who had flown over the country in question at least twice, preferably once in daylight.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine. What a name to conjure with! Did it influence the path in life he has taken (nominative determinism) or is it just well suited to the person he is (an aptonym)?

In our increasingly authoritarian age, there are some areas in which, rather bizarrely, we have more choice than ever. In terms of personal relationships, there is nowadays a wide variety of choices.

In April and May of 2022. I wrote two articles for Only Connect about the Falklands War of 1982, which argued that, despite being a decisive military victory, the Falklands War in fact represented a significant diplomatic and political failure.