The day the First World War broke out, 4 August 1914, the future poet Edward Thomas was waiting for his wife and children to arrive on…
The day the First World War broke out, 4 August 1914, the future poet Edward Thomas was waiting for his wife and children to arrive on…
Reading through Boris Johnson’s extraordinary statement – more a scream of rage – resigning from Parliament, you can’t help noticing the parallels with Donald Trump…
I have been writing a book about Robert Oppenheimer, the man who created the A-bob, only to fall foul of the McCarthyite atmosphere of 1954…
By the time you are reading this I will, I hope and believe, be half way across the Bay of Biscay on a Brittany ferry….
When Joe Biden arrived on Israeli soil on July 14, as part of his Middle East tour, he stumbled over words again. Referring to the…
Around 1200 festival-goers gathered in Queen Square in Bristol at the weekend (10th/11th June) for an extraordinary gathering, embracing people across the political spectrum and…
When I worked in PR, ‘it’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the cover up’ – was our guiding principle, reinforced by our advice…
Failure is meant to an orphan, but the debacle in Afghanistan is prompting an unedifying string of paternity suits. That the Afghanistan mission did fail…
On Sunday, August 8, the Afghan Taliban captured three provincial capitals, including Kunduz, the major city in northern Afghanistan, located near the border with Tajikistan…
On 9 July, the President of the United States repeated his intention to end the American military engagement in Afghanistan, which began in October 2001,…
Following in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump’s slogan was “Make America great again! ” The motto of the new American president, Joe Biden,…