Broad Oak Magazine

 A visit to Portugal for this week's music courtesy of Mariza  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariza  who I discovered on last week's...

  At #2 this week is John Leyton's 'Wild Wind' : S ome memorable events (via  Wikipedia ): 8 October ; the Berlin Wall story con...

I'm not the only one to notice: ' NHS bosses are apparently puzzled by the fact that there are, in the UK, thousands of excess death...

Last month’s Labour Party Conference vote for a minimum wage of £15 an hour https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58713344 raises the infl...

My brother has a class one HGV licence and has had it for nearly forty years. He has shown me photos of a forty ton artic plus trailer fully...

My summary of US and UK culture from World War II onwards. Returning soldiers decided that they deserved better from their government and co...

E H Wilson, left, with Charles Sprague Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum Two things started me on this short story. First was my re-...