BBC TWO – A Story of China
It normally takes me about five minutes into a history documentary for me to furiously start armchair travelling and searching for flights to discover for myself the exotic locales, the…
Hollande’s war on ISIS will change how history remembers him
“France is at war” This was how President Hollande started the speech of his political career. With France reeling from the worse attack on metropolitan French soil since the Second…
ISIS should be removed from the Levant, not Assad.
The media this week* is awash with questions about whether the UK should sanction airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria. The political pressure for Cameron to drop talk of further…
Membership in the EU is of vital national interest to the UK
Britain’s place is in the EU and at the very heart of it. With the European Referendum portentously looming over us, it is more important than ever to trumpet the…
Reflecting on Tony Abbott’s Fall
This week saw Australia’s controversial Prime Minister Tony Abbott ignobly ousted from office in a parliamentary coup by his old rival Malcolm Turnbull. It is a bold move for the…
