Broad Oak Magazine

We were in Army married quarters in a North German village, when this was first screened in June 1963 . Since then, it's become a Germ...

Some years ago I investigated errors generated by people collecting environmental data while out in the field. In those days we had compute...

Should Greek, Italian etc citizens not also have a vote in deciding who will be Germany's Chancellor? All original material is copyrig...

Graph: Karl Denninger (2013) Karl Denninger graphs the S&P share index against total public and private debt in the US and conclude...

Today, Yorkshire people in Easingwold will be the first place in the UK to receive sample disaster warnings by text message to cellphones. ...

Stop reading Liz Jones' diary! For those who don't know, Liz Jones is a fashion columnist with a weekly confessional page at the ...

An anecdote I heard years ago concerned prisoners of war captured by the Chinese in Korea. When a new contingent was caught, the men were ...

Pic: Yahoo News Poor old frog . But Classic fm asked for frog-themed titles of science fiction movies and one wit suggested "I, ...

Syria: it's alleged that the children dying of gas poisoning in Damascus were in fact Alawites kidnapped by the jihadists - and that ...

Several years ago I spotted a slogan painted on the door of a box of a building on Highgate Road: "KILL DA JEWS". The "da...

Looks as though the West, through the Saudis, is trying to buy off the Russians to clear the ground for an attack on Syria: http://www.tel...

David Malone looks at Qatar's interest in extending the Arab Pipeline (not to be confused with the TransArabian Pipeline ) through Syri...

"Yossef Bodansky [...] was, for more than a decade, the Director of the US House of Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconve...

I’m not a close follower of Santayana’s  philosophy, not making much use of his ideas on modes of being for example. Yet I greatly admire h...

“By 930, most arable land had been claimed and the Althing, a legislative and judiciary parliament, was initiated to regulate the Icelandi...

"A.D. 793. This year came dreadful fore-warnings over the land of the Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully: these were ...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackberry_fruits10.jpg That's what we heard a little girl call blackberries, or brambleberr...

We tend to think of cities as dirty and dangerous, but both these perceptions may need qualification. In a book published earlier this year...

And now Lee Child adds his weight to the cannabis legalisation lobby: ‘I’ve been smoking weed for 44 years, five nights a week,’ the au...

"I'll bring your coffee and then you can meet the staff," said the proprietress to my wife. There are six of them: a big bl...