‘This attack is about raw power, not about regional stability or better outcomes for everyone.”    ‘While there won’t be many Arab tears shed for Iran, that does not amount…

Israel has struck out at Iran as Washington continued to attempt a negotiated agreement with Teheran in the face of possible nuclear escalation. The attack hit Iran’s missile bases and…

A London-bound Air India Boeing has crashed today into residential buildings with 242 people on board just after take-off at Ahmedabad at 8.08 am UTC today with no survivors and…

Brian Wilson’s songs – Surfin’ USA, California Girls, I Get Around, Good Vibrations and God Only Knows – have become classics with music reviewers describing him as ‘one of pop…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ much vaunted spending review has led to accusations of spend now, pay later with investment in infrastructure like nuclear power stations. Boosts for Health and Defence budgets…

Astrology books, some older and difficult to obtain, are on offer from the library of the late Mary Vohryzek. She was a writer,  teacher and lecturer who translated Elsbeth and…

The Full Moon in Sagittarius illuminates the essence of wisdom. There has been an abundance of Gemini energy recently, bringing many circulating ideas, movement and communications; and now the Sun…

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned—Maya Angelou. Here in the north, the shimmer…

Murmurs that Xi Jinping’s one-man-rule is showing signs of coming to an end may be wishful thinking though there are ominous hints of failure and concern on various charts in…

Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, whose former life as a spy and war reporter informed his meticulously researched and hugely successful  thrillers…