Sometimes things just don’t make sense. After months of preparation 40,000 people gather for a weekend of music, worship and...
Over the last few years football fans have watched in disbelief as the Video Assistant Referee has disrupted the flow...
The leaders of Oman and South Korea must be scratching their heads in disbelief as long-time friend and ally, the...
As most of Britain endures the hottest day of the fifth heatwave of the summer, alarm bells about of our...
The natural world has some troubling aspects to it. Take for example the life cycle of the parasitic wasp. As...
As much of the UK bakes in yet another heatwave, I’m reminded of the story of an Indian water bearer....
Howls of protest this week as Trump intervened over the red card awarded to Falorin Balogan the USA’s top goal...
As a licence fee funded service the BBC is not allowed to advertise. This means that whenever a brand name...
If you are cooling off in the latest heatwave with an ice-cold drink, you might want to raise a glass...
Steven Spielberg’s famous film Saving Private Ryan begins with a graphic portrayal of the D-Day landings on Omaha beach. Thousands lose their...
The list of goods purchased by Peter Murrell using embezzled SNP funds reads like the items on the Generation Game...
In a world in which political leaders are prone to exalt themselves and cling on to power as if they...
On 10th April 1912 Father Robert Browne boarded the RMS Titanic for her maiden voyage. He had been gifted a ticket...
Clearing up other people’s waste is extremely costly. Across Britain today there are hundreds of sites containing tonnes of waste,...
The TV series Sort Your Life Out features families overwhelmed by the number of possessions and the amount of clutter...
In 1943 Anna Jarvis campaigned to have Mother’s Day cancelled in America. This might not have been anything to note...
On 10th March 1876 Alexander Graham Bell uttered the immortal words, ‘Mr Watson – come here – I want to see...
In a recent interview the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, declared, ‘one of the core principles in our system is...
British figure skaters Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson came agonisingly close to winning the first Olympic Gold medal since Torvill...
William Golding was a Royal Navy Lieutenant who took part in the D-Day landings. His experience of that conflict and...
Forty days on and Christmas is a distant memory. The bright lights that lit up our homes are back in...