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The English and Welsh were offered the opportunity to vote on 2 May. Some English people could vote in three different elections. Few of...

London, 13 May 2024 - The Prime Minister today announced the sale of Britain’s National Health Service to the American healthcare giant...

Every morning, I wake to the probing questions of current affairs journalists on BBC Radio 4. The responses from those in the limelight...

Last November a colleague called to ask if I would take two visitors for a tour round my ecological restoration project in Kenya. Two...

Stoker’s desk overlooks what would be a typically English rural, sylvan view.  It would be, were it not for the electricity and telephone...

Tidying my study is something of a mammoth job.  Apart from my failure to file stuff as it comes in, there is the added problem of my...

Nobody makes films about dentists. So said a friend commenting on the dramatic potential of dental care. Marathon Man, a film starring...

The blood was all over the back of my left hand. I was in the middle of delivering leaflets on behalf of the Liberal Democrats’...

The editorial command* is that we must cheer our readers up this month.  Crikey, as a much missed politician used to say: “Steady on...

What do Donald Trump’s runaway victories in the all the Republican Primary elections to date and the slaughter of over thirty thousand...