Author: Londonbear

Back at the very end of the 1950s when I was perhaps 8 or 9 I was allowed into the front “best” room of my grandparents’ house in London. The great treat was to be allowed to play the wind-up gramophone....

The evil that men do lives after them Shakespeare The death of Milosevic puts the Serbian people at a crossroads. They can chose to put behind them the dishonour and approbrium of the rest of the world that the racist rantings...

John Profumo died last night at the age of 91, surrounded by his family, after suffering a stroke two days earlier.  Profumo earned his place in history by bringing down the Macmillan government in 1963. He had been caught...

Today a feudal parliament is expected to make the first fundamental changes to its constitution in over 400 years. Until now members have been chosen by heredity or because they owned the tracts of land that the hereditary seats...

From Chanel4 News, London Embarrassed White House officials last night admitted that the closure of the Russell office building was down to what they described as a “slight malfunction of the President’s lower...