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The Public Order Bill was in the House of Lords. Many amendments sought to limit the proposed constraints on protest only to where 'serious disruption' was caused. There was much [...]

In 1952, the Swiss doctor and Alpinist Edouard Wyss-Dunant established the concept of the 'death zone', the altitude above which human beings are unable to acclimatise because of the lack [...]

It took just four months, from December 1952 to March 1953, for some 12,000 residents to perish in what was then modern London's most deadly civilian disaster. The initial public [...]

Is Philip Hammond right? Are public sector workers better paid than workers in the private sector who hold equivalent qualifications? Yes, if we believe the Office for National Statistics and [...]

A 100th birthday used to be so rare that, in many countries, it was deemed worthy of special recognition. In Japan, a centenarian was given a silver dish; in the [...]

Ronnie is shaved, dressed and waving as the staff wheel him into the room. Houdini was still climbing out of straitjackets the day Ron was born in Spennymoor, County Durham, [...]

It is the refusal of men born since 1926 to die as early as the actuaries predicted. Bad news (for life assurers). Men are living longer. Not just longer than [...]