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We Can Be Heroes: Ukrainian newly-weds pose for the cameras before heading-off to the front-lines. The Russo-Ukrainian War has presented you...

Tough Crowd: The democratic tree’s once wholesome fruit has been poisoned by the malodorous blight of populism. A toxic virus composed of...

Broad, Sunlit Uplands:  How those words fired my young imagination! Or, perhaps, it is more accurate to say: how those words fused, in my...

Saving What We Could: Had the United States and the British Empire not intervened in June 1944, it is almost a certainty that the Red Arm...

An Indiscriminate And Reckless Attack: Curiously, the British Prime Minister, Teresa May, does not appear to regard the “indiscriminate ...

Birds Of A Feather: If Edward VIII had been a less enamoured sex-slave to Wallis Simpson and a more convinced fascist, it is entirely p...

Right Place, Right Time, Right People: Andrew Little earned a standing ovation from Green Party members for his speech to their AGM, he...

The Lion's Share: As the hapless Ottoman Sultan looks on, the major imperial powers openly bid for huge chunks of his empire. New Z...

“Horses For Courses”: It's an expression you often hear in the mouths of old politicos. What they mean is that some elections are be...

Dresden, February 1945: Our parents and grandparents received the news of Dresden's destruction with equanimity. We were at war. By ...

My Enemy's Enemy: The Right's hysterical response to Kim Dotcom's involvement in the Internet-Mana Party suggests two th...

People Like Me: In the English-speaking world the Welfare State was born out of two vast historic events, the Great Depression and Worl...

Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: Winston Churchill's words to the people of Britain during its "finest hour" in 1940 were so m...