"Britain" Blogs & Blog Posts

Stourton's book was published in 2017I knew Kenneth Clark (1903-83) from watching his Civil­is­at­ion series on tv in 1969 and from his involvement with one of my favour­ite art historians Bern­ard Beren­son. And more recently I read Kenne...

The evidence. A witch kissed the arse of the DevilWitch-hunting plagued Europe, as soon as the idea that witches worshipped the devil took hold. Read an excellent book, Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters by Julian Goodare ed, 2013. In Scotland,...

The first London coffee house was opened in 1652 by Pasqua Roseé, a member the English Levant Co. that traded with Turkey. In Smyrna-Izmir, he found a taste for the dark stim­ulant drink. With time, each British coffee house  de...

If it seems a foregone conclusion given the opinion polls in Britain and Northern Ireland lately, the real polls sometimes tell a different story and politicians there are screaming at voters to get theirs in today. 46 million people are eligible to...

Anthony Bray, 48, of Nuneaton in England, is off to jail for four months for possession of a prohibited knife: a six-inch Legend of Zelda-branded "figdet toy". Police conceded that was its intended purpose, but said it still had a functional blade an...

The hundreds of British postmasters falsely convicted for stealing takings were the victims of a sequence of wrongs—a Post Office run by indifferent bean-counters, the abuse of its privilege to launch its own prosecutions, good old-fashioned lying...

I recently took a whirlwind, thirty-six hour visit to Edinburgh to see my university friends Nic and Sarah who were visiting from South Africa. I flew up on the Tuesday morning from London City Airport and returned, thirty-six thousand steps later, o...