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The Isles of Yap lie in the Mid Pacific, some 800 miles East of the Philippines. If both name and location suggest something out of...

Every week there are yet more examples of a country, or indeed a world, which seems increasingly insane. Clearly, this is not the first...

“I didn’t think you were the type.” Zu Henry, our neighbour in Bath, was looking through the passenger window of our car and addressing me.

An envied British institution. No, not the National Health Service. Something much more enviable. This year is the 70th anniversary of The

"Odesa. The doctor I went to in London. Remember? I read this morning: her clinic in Odesa was less than a kilometre from where those...