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Theresa May is like a lady in a dark cinema who’s looking for the toilets. She knows they’re there, somewhere or other, and she needs to re...

David Cameron 's marathon in Brussels seems to have culminated in a happy ending, enabling him to return to London with sufficient b...

David Cameron has just told his ministers that they're all free, individually, to adopt whatever attitude they like to the forthcomi...

In France, it's a fact, rightly or wrongly, that few folk celebrate the Battle of Waterloo , which took place exactly two centuries ago,...

Having examined countless BMD records [births, marriages and deaths] in the context of my personal genealogical research, I was delighted t...

Poor Stacey Dooley ! Poor Luton! I feel sorry for the people and the nation I once knew. If Brits were to think of themselves as toler...

Thinking of Bobby Sands . And of his comrades Francis Hughes , Ray McCreesh , Patsy O'Hara , Joe McDonnell , Martin Hurson , Kevin Lynch...

Over time, I've got around to considering that a passionate birdwatcher cannot possibly be an entirely bad person. So, the appointment o...

There are rumors that Her Majesty's Guards are recruiting certain exceptional sportsmen with the aim of putting together a top-level bas...

Here in rural France, I buy groceries in plebeian places such as Leclerc and Intermarché supermarkets. On the other hand, if I were to set...

Instead of "funny", I was about to write "horny". Thinking of male political candidates eager to win (girl)friends and i...

I don't know whether the Poms actually invented perks for politicians, but they seem to have brought it to a fine art. For example: thou...

In the UK, a disgruntled ex-member of the extreme right-wing BNP [ British National Party ] decided to publish the total list of members on...

A Martian, seeing the following banner displayed on the Internet, might imagine that this affair is about to be examined for the first time:...

In my article entitled Dorset ancestral anecdotes [ display ] , I described my delightful Friday, 3 August 2007, in the sunny village of Bl...

My Norman ancestors, arriving in England in 1066 with William the Conqueror, settled at the Saxon site of Sceaftinga tûn , the place of Scea...

On Thursday afternoon, 2 August 2007, I took the train from London Waterloo to Poole [Dorset]. I'm surely not the first traveler to poin...

Upon returning to Gamone after a five-day excursion to England, I was thrilled to discover that Manya had installed elegant new curtains in ...

My three destinations in the UK are purely genealogical, connected to my paternal ancestors: — London [two days], to take photos of my gran...