In 2022, a Canadian politician, Dominic Cardy, was on vacation in Ukraine. He visited sites that had experienced Russian ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

This is a brave and learned book. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Africa; who has taken sides in ...

Originally called The Ruthin Castle, Ye Cracke came to be in 1862, when the then landlord of the Ruthin Castle extended the ...

Shortly before Christmas 1938, with weeks of heavy snow carpeting the lands around her Highland home, the birdlike frame of ...

However, landlords soon started complaining that it was so strong, customers were falling asleep in their pubs, leading to a reduction in its strength. Yet on 22 July 1938, this was reversed and the ...

Choosing to visit Balfour and Val in Mpumalanga, South Africa, felt like stepping into the unknown, hoping for a mix of ...

And I find that lack of control fascinating.” He’s talking about Smoke, his new TV crime series for Apple TV and it’s a surprising, twisty show, which, after an interesting if not particularly ...

Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari died on July 13, 2025. He wasn’t quite the coward alluded to by William Shakespeare in ...

2019 Musician Jonny Clegg, 66, dies from pancreatic cancer. His music touched many with its vibrant blend of Western pop and African rhythms. His music style had an impact by embracing different ...

The odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking stretch of territory. These are the proposals ventured ...

Ian Morrell, a former town clerk in Nailsea, has had his first novel published. ‘An Honourable Betrayal’ is a fictional story that traces the history of Anglo-Irish relations during the febrile first ...