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If you’re sightseeing around our local city, Valencia, the saddest sight you can see is an air raid shelter. I’ve visited two and there are ...

The price of not being prepared for war can be an end to peace Syrian Kurds flee the fighting as Turkey invades Oh, say can you see, By...

One of the benefits of having dogs is that you have to go for walks. It may be cold and wet, or oppressively hot, but the dogs always know t...

The trouble with populists is that they’re always in a hurry. When they’ve seen that something needs to be done, they want to do it now. T...

Seventy-five years ago today, a powerful military nation made a fatal military error. Instead of swinging northwards from its conquered te...

In the grand days of the British Empire – or Empuh – we Engish speakers understood that if Johnny Foreigner didn’t understand what we were t...

Generals, it’s said, tend to fight the last war. As do admirals. Why, politicians too, and even their supporters. It’s true that admirals,...

A hundred years ago today, nearly 60,000 British young men – not for the most part soldiers, but civilians in uniform – who had been reasona...

The atmosphere today is febrile with the fear of terrorism.  Not without reason. If the attacks on Paris prove anything, they prove that t...

When it comes to BS, I’m sure most would agree that few can rival politicians.  To be fair, I’ve worked, and even enjoyed working, with a ...

Don’t get me wrong: The Eternal Zero is not a great film. There’s far too much overacting, some of the sentiment is nothing short of cheesy...

It was refreshing to hear Carl Randall speak about his paintings, at a new exhibition that has opened at the Berloni Gallery in London’s ...