Category: Briefs

One hundred years ago this month the English Nazi and upper class Hitler fancier, Unity Valkyrie Mitford, was born. She moved from England to Munich

The world’s oldest man is currently 111 year old Sakari Momoi of Japan. The oldest living woman is 116 year old Misao Okawa, also of

Seventy years after the Holocaust and amidst recent scenes in France of Islamic extremists burning synagogues and Jewish-owned shops, the French Government has been asked

New mothers in the USA are entitled to 12 weeks unpaid leave. There is no national programme to cover wages, although some cash benefits are

Flat tax rates are in the news again. The idea is that the lower the tax rates, the more revenue can be collected. New figures

The UK ranks joint second in the world, after the USA and alongside Australia, according to a British Council report, As Others See Us, on