All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars..

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intell….

I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel that the world….

Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed with….

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it.

If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free coun….

The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard o….

Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain fought and certai….

The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, ….

Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get e….

The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment..

An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels..