Graphic EJ David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Perth. On the panel are the parliamentary private secretary to Philip Hammond and Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, former Europe minister and Labour MP Caroline Flint, Scottish National [more…]
For over forty years I have struggled in the financial world to interpret statistics. People in public life love to flaunt statistics, graphs, numbers, percentages, usually to make a case for a pre judged outcome. [more…]
Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab (Germany abolishes itself) is the name of a gloomy state-of-the- homeland analysis by former banker and politician Thilo Sarrazin. His main argument was that mass immigration has brought few or no [more…]
Eleven o’clock now, all ready to go into town, park by the restaurant just before twelve, make sure there was beer on their breath, ham it up a bit so it would be just another [more…]
As has already been mentioned , the German submarine commander liked to attack the largest convoys with the maximum number of U-Boats he could muster , even if this meant other contacted convoys getting through [more…]
The geographical area we now know as the state of Israel and the Gaza strip was long ruled over in ancient antiquity by either the Pharaohs of Egypt or the rulers of the Hittite kingdom [more…]
Ask anyone from the general public to name a great aeroplane or a great British fighter of WWII, and chances are they will say, without hesitation, “The Spitfire of course.” If you ask why you [more…]
I love castles and have always found their development and changing functions fascinating. They show social, military and political history. They are a physical representation of the past, and yet many of them are still in [more…]
The Clooneys and the Elton-Johns were not the only people attending a wedding last week, yours truly was also present at some family nuptials just a few short days ago. Our little gathering unhappily lacked [more…]
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