Stoker6 minScottish Island Life – The Way Forward?There is a common view of what goes on in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and it is perhaps epitomised in this photograph...
Dr. Mark Nicholson6 minLast Tango in Tanga Plunting in African mountains. I recently returned from two plant hunting (what we call “plunting”) trips in East Africa. The first was on Mt. Kenya...
Richard Pooley6 minSave Energy, Beat Putin. We Brits need to be more stoical The UK’s previous prime minister, Boris Johnson, had this to say on his most recent visit to Kyiv: “While [the British] people are paying...
Michael Carberry6 minSmall government and low taxes will harm society, not heal it ... or feed itAs expected, Liz Truss has now come out top in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the British Conservative Party...
Sabrina Humphrey7 minThe Black Sea to Amsterdam – a cruise through central Europe (part 1) Earlier this summer my husband, Marcus, and I, together with two friends, finally set off on a Covid-postponed cruise, flying to...