The Cynical Tendency

The Guardian went big today in a lead article on the subject of air pollution which is certainly a major problem. It attributes this ...

In the pantheon of great men of the 19 th Century there are few engineers. Most of the men who built the Britain of that age are f...

We have been here before. In January 1958 a beleaguered Government under a non-elected Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, lost three s...

Still going on about Stalin etc. Russia was a very strange place to be in his time. In the middle of all the mayhem, the political an...

In the history of the 20th Century, among Russia's major figures are Stalin and Lenin who both visited London in the first decade ...

The debate on climate change and just what where and how will it all take place goes on. The difficulty is that the technicalities,...

In May 1917 under the heading of "Water Water Nowhere" I posted an item on the subject of fresh water supplies and our vuln...