The COP26 summit in Glasgow has already provided a few gems for avid news-watchers: notable amongst these was CNN’s confusion of Scottish geography by placing their news crew outside Edinburgh Castle, a new and more ...
A popular aphorism in British politics was coined by Conservative leader and postwar Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: when asked what the greatest challenge was in politics, he is said to have replied simply ‘events, dear ...
Predictions that the Autumn Budget would include a fundamental reform of business rates look to have come unstuck, as The Telegraph yesterday reported the Treasury floating the idea of a watered-down policy to support brick-and-mortar ...
In the last month, one of the most bizarre television series ever made became a major international sensation. It is the most popular ever series shown on Netflix, with over 111 million viewers. The hit ...
One of the striking things about the Covid-19 pandemic was the wealth of data it produced. Who can forget the graphics and the charts in briefing rooms, statistics from SAGE and Chris Witty splashed across ...
When Stephen Toope announced recently that he would be stepping down from his role as vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, there was largely muted response. His tenure was a controversial and not always successful ...
Australia, much like Taiwan, is a strategic outpost of the democratic world in an Indo-Pacific region mostly dominated by an increasingly confident China. Small in population, but punching above their weight economically and defensively, they ...
In the United States it was Generation X, or those that came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, that first earned the epithet ‘the slacker generation’. While their polar opposites in the UK were ...
Over the last month a crisis of recruitment in the road haulage industry has hit the headlines, with threats of food shortages and industrial supply chains looming large. Lurid threats of no chicken at Nando’s ...
This week an exciting new property arrived on the UK market in Bristol. The bijou terraced house in a prime location offered a kitchen-breakfast room, sitting room, and bedroom, and for only £170,000. There was ...
As Afghanistan settles tentatively into its new political reality, the Taliban will be faced with a number of questions as to what the nature of their new regime will be. Already there have been assurances ...
The white jihadist flag of the Taliban now flies over the Presidential Palace in Kabul after the sudden and total collapse of the Western-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. After a lightning run of victories against ...
In an event that made little impact in the international press, Rwandan troops this week entered Mocímboa da Praia, a major city in the province of Cabo Delgado in the far north of Mozambique. For ...
A century ago, Britain began the largest ever expansion of its imperial presence east of Suez. The construction of the Singapore Naval Base in 1921 included the largest dry dock in the world, with its ...
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