Broad Oak Magazine

Another helping of nostalgia and why not, real singers with excellent singing voices. The Platters, an American vocal ensemble, were one of ...

The mass murderer Nidal Hasan is to be executed by firing squad on 3 December. It is likely to be a swift and certain death unlike the rece...

 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) was a Soviet composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of hi...

  As Milton Friedman said ““You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state. “ That of course was before the numbers rac...

In the previous post on this subject we saw how Britain was keen to join in the great conflict of 1914, despite General Foch, then chief of...

My local Working Men’s Club used to show feature films once a week and they were usually about a year after being shown in the cinemas. This...

As we skitter towards another Continental war that may finally see the end of our country let us look back to the start of our ruin. If enou...