For background, Oswald Mosely was a member of Parliament in the Conservative Government before WWII and then with the Labour Party. He then broke away and formed his own party – the British Union of Fascists – in the 1930s, whose views were allied to the fascists in Italy and the nazis in Germany. His … Read more
Enid Blyton was an English children’s author whose books have been translated into 90 languages and have sold more than 600 million copies. Making an assumption that each of those copies has been read by, let’s say, three people – that means we are going on for two billion people who have read her books. … Read more
It’s day thirteen of our holiday in Saint Petersburg, and we take a taxi to Tsarskoye Selo (Tsar’s Village), fifteen miles outside the city. The countryside outside Saint Petersburg is nice – not an industrial nightmare. Some of the blocks of flats on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg are very big, and grey, but that … Read more