It’s 16 years since football came home for Euro 96 but its still the last time any home nation made it to the semi-finals of a major international tournament. Ireland and England will be hoping to change that when they arrive in the Ukraine and ...
Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Jamie Timson | Read more »
On the eve of John F. Kennedy’s presidency, fifty years ago, the prolific economist J.K Galbraith wrote a cautionary letter to the idealistic young president. He warned him that “politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choos...
Wed 20 Apr 2011 by Richard Martyn-Hemphill | Read more »
20 November marked the 33rd anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco. It also marks a year since the Spanish Parliament approved the Law of Historic Memory, condemning the actions of the Spanish dictator and attempting to redress the ambiguity of h...
Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Laura Robertson | Read more »
