Broad Oak Magazine

We walked back from the V&A and came to Harrods, since I wanted to see the police guard round the Ecuadorian Embassy at the back - the o...

I keep asking what exactly is meant by "Left" and "Right", which are used more as labels in political argument to cut di...

The James Bond film " On Her Majesty's Secret Service " is on ITV today. Released in 1969, the movie, scripted by Richard Maib...

The above clip is from a child's game called Raft Wars 2. As with the original, cute little characters (including a baby) bravely bat...

By Daley & Riley Australia has signed a  wonderful trade agreement with China. It will "open up billions of dollars in new marke...

Ron Paul argues that the solution to containing diseases like Ebola is to allow foreign countries to grow their economies so that they can ...

ISIS now faces formidable resistance from a new force called CHERWELL. The latter's acronym stands for Corporate Hellcats' Endless ...

AK Haart raised the question of how over-entertainment and superinformation are changing us. I think it's at least as serious an issue ...

Images adapted from: BBC , Saga's Cottage   We think of Magna Carta as a bulwark of English liberty against arbitrary State autho...

The Washington Post lists a host of US companies that have relocated their official headquarters overseas to reduce tax. Apart from the u...

(Pic source) If the above graph was of the stock market, where would you expect the line to go? Meanwhile, as the world's populati...

I don't know how I missed this... "The proposal to appoint specific named persons from the NHS and councils to monitor every you...

Vanuatu Independence 1980 ribbon and medal ( Images source ) Andrew Roberts in this week's Spectator : "To the magnif...

I read recently that both in the US and the UK, a significant part of the "quantitative easing" is repurchasing sovereign debt fro...

"...we can together seize this moment of change in our world to create a truly global society..." Does he know what he is saying ?...

A deep essay by Christopher Quigley here, but one I intend to re-read. Marxist philosophy always made my eyes water, practically instantly, ...