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Geert de Kremer’s challenge By Dr Mark Nicholson As a boy I used to play a game called Risk, where one tried to take control of the world...

By Rachel Woolf Comparisons between the Coronavirus pandemic and World War Two have been very appealing to a prime minister who wishes to...

On 10 June 2016 I wrote the following in an email from France to some friends in the UK:“We voted last week.

Now that Brexit is accomplished, more or less, we face Scoxit; the liberation of Scotland from the clutches of the United Kingdom.

Whenever you mention Gypsies in the Arab world the images that spring to mind are of music and dancing, fortune tellers and beggars,

by Dr Mark Nicholson In February 1938, the Chicago-born British politician, Chips Channon, wrote in his unredacted and unbowdlerised...

The late-lamented Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, whose very moving funeral service took place in St. George’s Chapel

“Yes. Chernobyl was the worst nuclear accident that the world has seen, and in the area affected by the fallout there have been about 4,000

Many years ago I worked for a company majority-owned by Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corp

Central Kenya is on the UK Red list and is in lock-down again, one year to the day since it was first locked down.