Stories

The idea of Queen Elizabeth having tea with a cartoon bear might have been considered rather frivolous. Was it really appropriate for the nation’s sovereign

This weekend the nation will gather to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. While the world has changed out of all recognition, she

Regime change from the outside in doesn’t seem to have much to commend it. Western attempts to force such change in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya

For those of us who pray the Eurovision Song Contest is a lesson in perseverance. Since the beginning of the century the UK have begun

For decades Russia’s biggest annual parade was the November 7th celebration of the October Revolution. In 1935 one of the invited guests was a 71-year-old textile

The British film Operation Mincemeat tells the incredible true story of perhaps the greatest deception of the Second World War. In 1943 the Allies were

Drowning in debt and too proud to declare bankruptcy John Darwin decided there was only one thing left to do. He faked his own death

Once again, the Oscars ceremony in 2022 will be remembered for something that shouldn’t have happened. Presenter Chris Rock made a joke at the expense

One of the most distressing aspects of the war in Ukraine is the apparent blessing being given to it by some in the Russian Orthodox

My first mobile phone was a Phillips Savvy. It had an aerial poking out of the top, a tiny screen and could store up to

If suffering is seen as the Achilles’ heel of Christianity, then justice poses a similar problem for atheism. Let me explain. Human beings have an

In his first response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine the Pope tweeted, ‘War is a failure of humanity, a shameful capitulation, a stinging defeat

As Vladimir Putin’s intentions towards Ukraine become ever clearer Russia has   been accused of false flag attacks. These are when an aggressor stages an attack on

Jesus once explained that while “foxes have holes and birds have nests” he didn’t have a bed to sleep in. Well foxes still have holes,

On 2nd April 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. Three days later the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington,

In December 1934 an American missionary in China was on the verge of giving up. Just twenty-one years old he was living in poverty and

Recent research reveals that the grunts, bellows, squeals and “wheeze honks” made by hippos are not meaningless noises but the language they use to communicate.

The British Government is currently trying to pass a controversial piece of legislation: the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. In the latest instalment the

This week the Marble Arch Mound closed for the last time. Built to draw visitors back to a post-Covid London it never quite lived up

I wonder how your New Year resolutions are going. As far as I can remember I’ve only ever made two. The first was when I

“I was not lost and did not need to be rescued.”  So said British adventurer Benedict Allen after being rescued from the jungle of Papua