I watched a tremendous piece of TV last night, The Truth about Killer Dinosaurs, presented by Bill Oddie. It was masquerading as a scientific programme, but actually it was just a hi-tech dinosaur-based version of that perennial argument about which superheroes could beat each other in a fight. Last night’s episode was trying to establish [...]
At a hefty 912 pages, this is not a book to be picked up halfheartedly. I’m a fairly speedy reader, but it’s still taken me the best part of two months to get through this biography. So: was it worth the effort? I’ve always had an interest in the Second World War which not even [...]
On 10 August 1911, the Parliament Act was passed. The Act limited the power of the House of Lords and committed Britain to undertaking a democratic reform of the House. Tomorrow will mark the 94th anniversary of that still-unmet commitment, and the Elect the Lords campaign is calling for urgent action to ensure that reform [...]