Having offered myself up to, and colluded with, its wicked manipulations before gleefully heading off down the Yellow Brick Road to TV Oz, I confess I've finally given up the critical fight against the potent, seductive, brilliantly constructed ...

Launched in 2004, Their Past Your Future (TPYF) is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and uses historical sources, sites, museums, veterans and eyewitnesses of war to increase young people's understanding of history, commemoration, national identity and ...

Download the MP3 audio version of this story here , or sign up for The Explainer's free daily podcast on iTunes . Casino Royale , the 21 st installment in the James Bond franchise, is set to open on Friday. The plot of the prequel details how the ...

I've become the first Leader of the Green Party at a time when progressive leadership has never been more urgent. We face the interconnected challenges of recession, soaring oil prices and climate change, but the leadership of the establishment ...

The continuing, if not escalating, US and UK financial crisis is repeatedly punctuated in the media by failed brokers and bankers blaming it all on the fall in property prices (Banks: the contagion spreads, September 17). But it is illogical that the ...

Ministers are preparing to allow public patients to pay for some top-up drugs in a decision that opponents claim will spell the end of the National Health Service. Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, is poised to relax the ban on patients paying ...

In 1847, a Dr Hyde Clark wrote a paper entitled Physical Economy - a Preliminary Inquiry into the Physical Laws Governing the Periods of Famines and Panics. His paper was published in the Railway Register. It opens with the comment: “We have just ...

A special one-day art event on Saturday July 7 is offering Epping locals the chance to take a journey of discovery through their local woodland and surrounding urban areas. Running from 10am until 6pm the day is part of an artist-led collaboration ...

From: Liam McParland, William Street, Crosland Moor, Huddersfield. KARL Marx will be turning in his grave! Well over 100 years after his death, we are once again witnessing the deep flaws in a de-regulated free market system based on greed ...