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We do, as a nation, love our charity shops – more than ever it seems. Lina my partner, who is Russian, would happily spend an entire day in charity...
As Lord Justice Sedley said in a landmark case in 1999: “Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the...
Situated in a corner of London’s Hyde Park, close to Marble Arch tube station, Speakers’ Corner is an open area where debate and discussion are...
I first came across the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) in 2007. It was via a Louis Theroux documentary for the BBC called America’s Most Hated...
What is a cult? According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, a cult is a “religious group, often living together, whose beliefs are considered...
I’ve written previously about scams when it comes to email, or to your landline telephone. I’ve also written specifically on foreign currency...
As Liza Minnelli once sang, money makes the world go round… It sure does. But where does it all come from? Being a political geek, I always watch...
The idea for this column came to me the other week, after I’d just watched – for the umpteenth time – the movie The Silence of the Lambs....
The 1990s – just saying it out loud, it seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? Maggie was still in Number 10, albeit not for much longer. Labour...
In my column last week, I told you about the new sequel to Peter Pan I have written, which has just been released. Today, I am sharing an extract. I...
James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, on May 9 1860. He later graduated from Edinburgh University and moved to London to fulfil his...
In George Orwell’s – or to use his real name, Eric Arthur Blair’s – classic dystopian novel 1984, there were four ministries. The Ministry of...
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organisation, set up in 1945, replacing the rather inadequate League of Nations. It currently has 193...
Ukraine is still being bombed, countless thousands have died and millions fled. This sickening and pointless war will finally come to an end, all wars...