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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shows that he was ambivalent about the knighthood he received on October 24, 1902. "Sir" and

How did you learn to read? If, like me, you are British and English is your mother tongue*, the answer will most likely depend on how old...

If nothing else comes out of the tragedy last week in the English Channel, let us hope that the debate on migration...

At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, amid uncertainty about how long it would last and the widespread expectation...

President George W. Bush’s poor grasp of English grammar made him the target of much scorn from liberal commentators in the USA.

News from the US this week is that, in a desperate attempt to get away from woke culture, a new university has been founded in which free...

A hundred years is old for a cherry tree, especially in a Victorian suburban garden. This summer it looked sick, lost its leaves...

The history of the world is mainly about the conquest of peoples by other, usually more numerous, stronger, or better-armed, opponents.

As a misanthropic and dithery Art student in 1968, I was inexplicably inveigled by the Edinburgh Students’ Union into an unlikely task...

Here in Jordan, the olive harvest and processing season is well into its first month with just under two months remaining of hard work...