TULIPS
Few images are as indelible as the sight of new tulips bursting through the dark winter ground. In the Netherlands – the world’s largest exporter …
60 Minutes
The “60 minutes” program on CBS TV channel has been an icon of news reporting for over 40 years. It consistently has superior ratings, and …
BREATH OF FRESH AIR
Earlier this week my partner and I had a “breath of fresh air” experience of the type that seems to come along very rarely these …
ANCIENT GREEK SUPERCOMPUTER
An ancient Greek supercomputer sounds a little unlikely to put it mildly, but a discovery in a 2000-year-old shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in …
CLAUDE MALHURET
In many opinions the transcript of this speech by Claude Malhuret speaking to the French Senate on Tuesday March 4, 2025, will live forever in …
IN CASE WE FORGET
In case we forget. As we endure the deluge of changes that Donald Trump is inflicting on us on an hourly basis, we have to …
ENGLISH EXAM IN 1913
Three people sat the first Cambridge English exam in 1913. It is now taken by more than a million people a year all around the …
ITALIAN CUISINE
Italian cuisine may be one of the most recognised and loved in the world. It is often imagined as a collection of ancient recipes and …
LECH WALESA
I thought that this letter from the Former President of Poland, Lech Walesa, to Donald Trump was worth publishing in its entirety. I can’t vouch …
DRONE WARFARE
The advent of drone warfare as a major part of the Ukraine war with Russia has turned modern conflict, and the weapons we have traditionally …