Broad Oak Magazine

From Google Earth - Kaechon Gulag No 14 - School for Child Prisoners Asahi Shimbun has a piece on  Shin Dong-hyuk , a North Korean defe...

The child looked about him, watching with keen impressionable eyes what the grown-ups were doing and how they were spending the morning. No...

At the height of the row between the BBC and Downing Street over the "sexed-up" briefing that served as a pretext for UK involveme...

John Ward has an appalled look at the underclass and, though naturally a humane man, is leaning in the direction of abortion and sterilisat...

As we all know, the  Central England Temperature  (CET) record is the world's oldest continuous surface temperature record, going back t...

Pics: Guardian , Telegraph "When rubbish piled up for weeks in 1979, it was a crisis; now it's an EU policy." That was my ...

This week saw the death of Hiroo Onada, a WWII Japanese soldier who continued his guerilla war in the Philippines until 1974. Although he ki...