Abu Nidal (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It is notable that the UK, in slavishly following the 'security advice' of close ally th...

The sensitive little darlings, The Sun, subsequently deleted this tweet. You may have seen The Sun's Kelvin MacKenzie protesting ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Quick post, just to share that 'Talking of Books' radio show from last week... The podcast is...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Róisín handed the joint to Orla, who shook her head. ‘No thanks. Not my thing.’ She waved her g...

It's odd, I'd scanned this a few weeks ago intending to do a post about the mildly egregious toilet papers produced by vendors to ...

Image by Paul Keller via Flickr So our man, let’s call him Paddy, buys a replica AK47, one of those welded ones that trade in the UK across...

It's been an interesting week in the old and new media: the UK FCO terror warning for the UAE has really shown the contrast between Int...

I probably wasn't the only British expatriate puzzled by the news that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office had raised its terror warn...