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Every week there are yet more examples of a country, or indeed a world, which seems increasingly insane. Clearly, this is not the first...

“I didn’t think you were the type.” Zu Henry, our neighbour in Bath, was looking through the passenger window of our car and addressing me.

An envied British institution. No, not the National Health Service. Something much more enviable. This year is the 70th anniversary of The

"Odesa. The doctor I went to in London. Remember? I read this morning: her clinic in Odesa was less than a kilometre from where those...

‘The Death of Grass’ is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1956 by English novelist Samuel Youd under the pen name John Christopher...