January 2016 – The British Gazette

Above George Osborne AND BOSS! British Gazette Readers will know that your Editor has a shareholding in Lloyds Bank. My…

Above, the Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722) – the longest-reigning emperor in the history of China. Under his 61 years of reign…

This is the sort of recommendation one would have expected from Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier, Chief Minister to Louis XVI…

Above, an adaptation of a cartoon of 1900. Remember Robin Cook and his “ethical foreign policy” ? Didn’t last very…

Above, the most expensive White Elephant in Europe? The European Parliament building in Strasbourg. The phrase “The economy, stupid” was…

Above, HM Prison Dartmoor and inset, one of Her Majesty’s residents on D Wing. British Gazette readers will be used…

In previous articles, this organ – along with other commentators – have suggested that the chameleon is likely have the…

Neville Chamberlain’s famous statement made on the concrete of Heston (not Croydon) Aerodrome on 30th September 1938 will always be…

There will be times in everybody’s life when we have thought, “What have I done?” It is often followed by…

Above, the late Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber. Today’s article paraphrases one of the most widely cited actions attributed to…