1. "Well, don't worry about it." The Failure of Imagination. Early in the morning of the 7th September 1941 a technician mo...

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The Bombardment of Fort McHenry Britain has given America some great gifts: democracy, the English language and Catherine Zeta Jones co...

The famed 'flag march', where Indian and Pakistani soldiers engage in a competitive display of high-camp macho posturing, is to be ...

When Greece was finally restored to the principles of democracy it helped found, the inner working of one of Europe's most brutal milit...

HMS Astute is certainly not the first British sub to crash into something it shouldn't. In recent years subs have hit everything from ...

As the USA hastily amends it's account of its failure to rescue the British aid worker Linda Norgrove , perhaps we should remember some...