I guess I first became aware of Stephen Fry — the Cambridge-educated actor, author, and broadcaster who was knighted this…

On May 22, 2025, the government of the United Kingdom signed the much-discussed treaty transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago…

President Donald Trump’s most consistent platform issue of immigration has frequently been labeled far-right or xenophobic due to his hardline…

Sports organizations on both sides of the Atlantic seem to have adapted an apocryphal Winston Churchill quote into their modus…

In a world of angels, peace is natural. As a very old Jewish prayer asks, “May He who makes peace…

Washington and London are currently negotiating a tariff agreement. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump wants the U.K. government…

“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” William Shakespeare, King Lear Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the…

In the mediocre yet fun James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, series archvillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld auctions a laser weapon…

Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were:…

In the early 1990s, I visited Chartwell, Winston Churchill’s former home in the countryside of Kent in southeast England. Entering…