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You have to be satisfied with small achievements if you have only middling strength and the truly great is beyond your grasp. So in this c...

Let me say at once that I have little or no interest in football. It’s so unimaginative. Players rush up and down the pitch without anythi...

Here, glimpsed at Oxford Circus station on the London Underground, is a contribution to what is becoming a veritable series on outstanding a...

Have you ever listened to the BBC Radio 4 series A history of the world in a hundred objects ? If not, I strongly recommend you go to the we...

Anxious times in Egypt. With the army in control, will the country really move towards freedom and democracy, or are we going to see a decli...

So what happened at the theatrical event of the decade? By popular demand, I return to a subject that I've allowed to drift off the ra...

It’s a curious fact that’s not well known outside Sweden that one of its Kings spent time as a prisoner of the Turks. Is this just somethi...