Having refused to succumb to the hype and see it in the cinema, it's taken me a year to watch Avatar, but thanks to a cheap one month t...

Halloween 1914 was a horrible time. Military historians call it The First Battle of Ypres, but that dry name does little to convey the horro...

This list turned out to be harder list than I thought. I never realised until I thought about it how many fools, tyrants and just plain ab...

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

The English village, a place that exists more in myth than reality today, where paternalistic squires guide the simple folks in their charmi...

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 ...