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I am writing this on the first day of 2017 in the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar. In the Western calendar it is September 11, a day that...

In April 2020 Sir Keir Starmer became Leader of the UK’s Labour Party and leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.   That means that, in...

Japan, South Korea and North Korea share a troubled history. Japan’s colonial era and subsequent treatment of its occupied countries left...

What does a prolific author and television presenter of popular histories, biographies, novels and children’s books but who has also...

My immediate reaction to that question is “certainly not” or at least “I hope not”. I had to search online for a definition of the word...

The article by my fellow contributor, Lynda Goetz, in last month’s Only Connect, entitled "We MUST reduce immigration...

Modern housing has finally caught up with the Three Little Pigs; by the wonders of modern technology you can have your new mass-produced...

Deep breath. I’m about to offend what few friends I have left. I have recently made a new entry into my list of conversational pet hates...

Crying and yawning are infectious. We Liberal Democrats in the vast hall at the Bath & West showground in Somerset were doing both at...

“My grandfather was Hungarian”. Not such a loaded statement as, “My father was a toolmaker”, and although I may have said it before...