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Our two youngest flew into Nairobi last Saturday for their long summer holidays. They arrived at 0100h...

It is now almost thirty-five years ago that I began my career in the field of training. I walked into Farnham Castle in Surrey...

As Joe Biden shuffles towards the end of his first year in Presidential office he must be reflecting that things could have gone better...

I went skiing in the French Alps last week. Alright for some, I can hear you saying. Well, yes. There is no...

Kalliopi Venieri made both a late and an early start as a professional dancer. She had her first ballet lesson at 11, some years...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shows that he was ambivalent about the knighthood he received on October 24, 1902. "Sir" and

How did you learn to read? If, like me, you are British and English is your mother tongue*, the answer will most likely depend on how old...

If nothing else comes out of the tragedy last week in the English Channel, let us hope that the debate on migration...

At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, amid uncertainty about how long it would last and the widespread expectation...

President George W. Bush’s poor grasp of English grammar made him the target of much scorn from liberal commentators in the USA.