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Gallantry and duty are qualities which epitomise armed service. Brave men and women put their lives on the line for their country and its people. To serve one’s...

William Blake’s hymn Jerusalem contrasts his dream of heaven in an idyllic England’s “pleasant pastures seen” with “those dark Satanic mills”. His dismay at...

Cancer touches most families. There are with around 375,000 new cancer cases in the UK every year – around 1,000 every day – in other words: a new diagnosis...

We are what we remember, as each of us comprises where we have been, whom we have known and what we have done. When dementia robs people of all that, they are...

The ability of those who govern a country to defend and advance the interests of its people – without outside interference – is a cornerstone of the concept of...

The writer Aldous Huxley, famous for his ground-breaking novel Brave New World, concluded that “technological progress has merely provided us with more...

In the coming days, many of us will doubtless be entertained again by Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’, or perhaps by the wonderful film adaptation starring...