Broad Oak Magazine

 “Three people were found dead aboard a small boat early on Thursday after launching from Dunkirk,” says BBC News online . There was a fourt...

Good afternoon, colleagues. Before I begin you should know that this meeting will remain completely secret. That means no off the record bri...

Ten years before the outbreak of the First World War Sir Halford Mackinder read a paper to the Royal Geographical Society in which he rela...

All we need is to have law that applies to everybody and is strictly enforced. They do have to be just laws that make sense to everybody, of...

The point of training is so that you do not have to be wise after the event. It will be fifteen months before the inquest into Henry Nowak’...

We’ve watched as industrial jobs have been scythed away and young people face life as shelf-stackers or on the dole. Now technology is comin...

The YouTube video below, viewed today, is disturbing in its implications not only for China but for our interconnected world economy. Accord...

Our current Prime Minister is fond of using law as an expression of his autocratic power. A recent government press release states: Eleven ...

 A marvellous video tells how China is reversing the progress of a desert that was heading towards Beijing. At first they planted great numb...

 The final ward to declare its result in last Thursday’s local elections in Birmingham was Glebe Farm and Tile Cross. At stake were two coun...

Even veteran journalists can get things hopelessly wrong: “In a democracy we get the politicians we deserve,” said the Daily Mail’s Andrew N...

 Birmingham used to be called the City of a Thousand Trades. It had a large skilled workforce and a diversified industrial base, with many s...

He’s awful but you can’t get rid of him. Yesterday’s PMQs, which took place after some attempt to prorogue Parliament in time to cancel them...

Since the Mandelson/Starmer matter questions are being asked about whether the Ministerial Code has been breached. This prompted me to look ...

The video below tells us something I hadn’t known and should have. In the summer of 1920 Lenin sent 200,000 soldiers into Poland with the ob...

Sir Keir claims the right to govern based on a freak electoral result but since then has repeatedly shown his contempt for democratic accoun...

The first part of the tweet below shows the way forward: People are rightly getting tired of the doom-mongers. If the gloomy prophets are r...