Hal G.P. Colebatch

I recently criticized the British government’s award of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie on the grounds that such an action…

It was good to read that Pope Benedict sent a message of support to the Scout movement on the occasion…

Londonistan By Melanie Phillips (Encounter Books, 200 pages, $25.95) Has this book been reviewed before? If so, in light of…

The governance of Britain has been a weird enough situation recently with its two non-prime ministers. But however you look…

It was a hallmark of the Enlightenment civilization of the West that warring countries still shared scientific knowledge, and held…

Just as you think Britain’s local authorities have reached the edge of the envelope in vacuous, bullying stupidity, that they…

Australia is a stable, well-governed country, but if Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister it may not be possible to go…

In 1940, during the most desperate part of World War II, amid an avalanche of disasters, a British ship named…

Just when it seems the Church of England can go no further in offensive fatuousness, it manages, faithfully, to excel…

During one of Britain’s 19th century wars with China a British soldier in a force under Lord Elgin was captured…