I have just finished re-reading an excellent book by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, called In Denial . The subtitle explains the subject...

Well it might be back. Hard to tell what Bill Clinton's visit to Kim Jong-il was all about. According to the official Korean Central New...

Like this fungus on a tree in Upper Addison Gardens, near Holland Park.

In the blogosphere, that is. Ann Althouse is one of the most interesting, wacky and, frankly, infuriating bloggers (well, she does not infu...

First of all, apologies for the silence. There were reasons to do with the BBC Russian Service, friends and family, and, finally, a rather u...

Warsaw, August 1, 1944 Start of the ill-fated Warsaw Uprising

Gazeta Wyborcza reports that Remnants of murdered Poles have been discovered in an Orthodox cathedral in Hlybokaye in Belarus. The local pr...