Why has the Netherlands been so successful? A large part of the place is below sea level, built on reclaimed land, it has no natural resourc...

Change came to the valley this year. Since the days of King Francis' kataster , or land register, made at around the time of the battle ...

With apologies for intruding on our warm glow of satisfaction at the election result (for many of us,if not all), today I have a reminder t...

In the latter part of the 19th century, our legislators realised that government was seriously lagging the monumental changes to the Britain...

The Conservative party is a broad church, and I am happy with the socially liberal membership policies of the party which are backed by an u...

Reading the newspapers this week has been not unlike Christmas day as a small child - not quite knowing which present to open next, whether...

One of my friends here is an engineering graduate of the prestigious TU Wien - the technical university. It markets itself as the European c...

It is quite clear that Labour's resounding defeat, according to the Party, had nothing to do with Jeremy Corbyn, the Party's extremi...

The country has always been an egalitarian place. For a start, the planners haven't buggered it by creating monocultural ghettoes like ...

There were a tense few hours yesterday evening. The pound had fallen, things were looking shaky, the left were exultant on social media. It ...

Whatever the outcome of today's epochal election, it will stand as a high water mark of error, poor practice, confusion, division, uncer...

The BBC's initial reaction to competition, when I was young, was to destroy it using the organisation's privileged broadcasting powe...

Readers of Patrick O'Brian will be familiar with the author's benign contempt in the Aubrey / Maturin novels for the 'commercia...

Looking at common ground around the climate issues, I'm becoming increasingly confident that there is emerging a consensus around mitiga...

You'd have needed a heart of stone not to have empathised with Nigel's agony yesterday. After having set up BrexitCorp™ as the perfe...

A week out from polling day and my motivation has plunged. Perhaps this is the low point of the campaign. Even Swinson's outrageous defe...

The United Nations, as I never tire of reminding the ignorant, was originally the name of the military alliance that opposed the Axis powers...

After this election campaign, the role of broadcasters will never be again as it was. Any reasonable person who watched Marr trying to humil...

This is the advice for Leavers given by the Telegraph ; vote for TBP - If the Conservatives haven’t won the seat since at least 1992 (or s...

This - Sorry, but there's no polite way to say this. The Brexit party is set to deliver Corbyn an election victory and destroy Br...