It was clear that we weren’t all going to make it. Something had gone wrong on our way to settle a new land,

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“Thus was I at once basking in an intense sun, regaling myself with luxurious fruit, reading my favourite Disraeli,” Lady Charlotte Bertie wrote

I suppose I’m a criminal now. After years of cautious adherence to this country’s judicial system, I have stepped outside the law and

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We’re so accustomed to hyperbole that it can be difficult to recognise the truth in grand statements. When Neil Armstrong stepped out onto

There’s a curious plethora of chicken shops in London named after US cities and states, as if the right name will make their