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July 2008
24: Surviving to rise again - uncanny modern parallels
23: Radio heroine defies Mugabe and thugs
23: But could it stop a tank?
23: The Last Load
22: Encounter with an iconic document
22: Eric Liddell in China
21: European Union abolishes the English acre
21: Proms 2008
21: Lewis Hamilton wins again
21: British Open Champion
19: A salute to Stuart Wheeler
19: William Blake on doing good
19: The Mommas of Mamma Mia!
19: Lord Monckton's views supported by American physicists
18: The right of self-defence cannot be restored because it cannot be denied
18: A Dream Girl
17: Lisbon Treaty ratified - We will never give in
17: In praise of older men
17: In a house in the country
16: Bachelors' party
16: "Before the Revolution"
15: Correction
15: Shakespeare in the Hudson River Valley
15: "His situation felt closer to mine" - Keats
14: Swan upping reviewed
14: "Do you want to know a secret?" The Beatles
14: Suppressed information about John Lennon?
14: 2600 hospitals!
14: "A live wire"- John O'Sullivan
12: A last word from Sir John Templeton
12: The Puritan contribution to modern America?
12: Wallpaper memories
12: This is not the UN of which Churchill and FDR dreamed
11: David Davis wins one for liberty
11: John O'Sullivan - a good time to remember Margaret Thatcher
10: A Royal Navy education
10: Ban on Darling spreads
10: Summer strawberries
09: The Lady of Shalott
09: Revisiting royal cock-ups
09: Sir John Templeton
08: Harry Potter supports Cameron's individual responsibility with a caveat
08: "She gave her all"
07: Whatever next?
07: Hamilton wins wet Grand Prix victory
07: Playing fair
05: Laura Robson wins title
05: Two boys resisted
05: Mozart and Melua in Bath
05: Rebutting the Lord Chief Justice on sharia
05: Is gun control behind our loss of civil liberties?
05: Bob Geldof in support of David Davis's Freedom campaign
04: Happy 4th and the Brits who supported a radical idea
03: Henley Royal Regatta
03: Enjoying life with Boddingtons
03: Patriotic questions
03: Thinking through the deselection of monarchs
02: Sovereigns selected and deselected
02: One of our best friends
01: July calendar
01: Today is Canada Day
01: Green and profitable - HRH The Prince of Wales
01: Champions at sitting on their backsides
01: Update on Canada's star chambers

June 2008
30: Eric Clapton
30: The darling English language
30: Former Labour MP Tony Benn urges "libertarians from left and right" to defend liberty
28: Wimbledon
28: An individual right protecting against both public and private violence
27: Thank you, Veterans
27: Labour receives just desserts in Henley
27: Hero
26: The Gurkha and the Victoria Cross
26: This is not what we meant by progress
26: Escaping oil and driving your car thanks to microbes
26: Implantable sensor to monitor heart patients
26: Stripped of knighthood
26: "And the lovers lie abed"
25: Wheeler to appeal High Court decision
25: Letter to The Queen
25: "A positive force of the past millennium"
24: The Rake at Garsington
24: A second salute
23: English country
23: Racer
23: An almost unfathomable ignorance of history
21: Being a friend
21: Trusting ourselves, trusting each other
21: Hopeful giving
20: High Court Justice DELAYS EU treaty ratification
20: English roses
19: 42 days? Or would you prefer 90?
19: Watching Royal Ascot
18: Britain "ratifies" the "dead" Lisbon Treaty
18: "I know a bank"
18: Excellent news - increasing numbers of Brits oppose EU
18: Colin Murdoch
18: A suggestion
17: Petition to sign
17: "Would you sign a contract that the other side could change at will?"
17: Salisbury Cathedral celebrates 750 years
17: Bruges Group to hold Waterloo Day Meeting
17: Boris Johnson on safety and liberty
16: Paul McCartney live
16: Speaking of sons
16: Now that Father's Day is over
16: Rochester Castle
15: Serlo the Mercer and Magna Carta
14: Nice to see Austin-Healeys
14: Trooping the Colour
13: The remarkable cells in the nose
13: Thank you, dear Irish!
13: An excellent question
13: Iron entered his soul - Davis defends British liberty
12: What exercise can do for you
12: "What I saw in Afghanistan"
11: Golden past, dark day
11: Finding a masterpiece in the jumble
11: Airborne
11: The best book on the market
10: High Court report - just in
10: JK Rowling on failure and friends
10: Predictions on Mark Steyn's fate
10: They haven't changed their minds
10: Walking in Britain
10: Hot enough?
09: Funeral rites for Britain?
07: Archbishop skydives to raise money for soldiers
07: English Bridge
07: Go, Irish!
07: A salute to the defenders of free speech
07: Summer life
06: Remembering them
06: Next week
06: Saving our lives
06: English all-stars
06: Worth looking into
05: Winning the Stanley Cup
05: Books coming in from the cold
04: Dickens' desk and chair to benefit children
04: "We shall never surrender"
04: "Obscene human rights" commissions and common law
04: The Lords Spiritual
03: Following her heart from a Caribbean hotel to the Crimean War
02: Best way to handle trauma - stiff upper lip?
02: How Hillary Clinton resembles the Empress Matilda

May 2008
31: June
31: EU economy
31: The ghost of the 18th century in Dumfries House
31: Music in the rain
31: Theatre outdoors
30: Sacrifice
30: The Royal Tournament
30: Perilous sport
29: Remembering their climb
29: "You don't know what you've got till it's gone"
29: Following the May - Roger Deakin
28: Retreat to victory
28: SOS is up
28: The spirit of a woman - Diana Barnato Walker
27: “A strange fleet appeared”
27: Lewis Hamilton has done it again
27: EU creep
27: A lullaby
26: "We are their heirs"
26: Dining with the Royal Society
26: "Biotechnology could be a great equalizer, spreading wealth"
26: Culinary Notes
26: Feast days
26: British-American labour unions to unite
24: "Modest heroes"
24: The Queen and the Dalai Lama
24: Morning
24: "Flushed with enthusiasm" at the Hay Festival
23: Prince Charles welcomes Dalai Lama
23: V&A opens jewellery gallery
23: Decoding Stonehenge again
23: Canadian flash point
22: Inveraray
22: The best intentions
22: Modern tax increases and Boyle's law of gases
21: Rolling out the big guns
21: Behind the curve, and ahead of it
21: "Draw on sweet night"
20: Dunstan - the devil is in the details
19: Caspian film reviews
19: "The world's greatest flower show"
19: The deniers
19: Prince of Wales urges leaders and people to save rain forests
17: Royal Canadian
17: To dreamers and defenders
16: Dambusters
16: Prince Caspian opens in movie theatres
16: Nanny Wild and the good and the bad of country life
16: "By their deeds shalt thou know them"
15: John McCain advocates "British-style question periods" in US
15: Fred J Taylor outdoors
15: Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon achieve record sales
15: A fine, big bull
15: An idea that doesn't add up
14: Forsyth and Carswell challenge central control
14: Victorian Peeper
14: "Under the radar beam" - British charities
13: Royal Navy-led MCM task group clears the way for Iraqi maritime trade
13: Just because
13: "Touch me with noble anger"
13: More about underdogs
12: The British people and underdogs
12: Right to silence defended
12: Red rhododendrons
12: Irish to rescue British?
12: Thinking about American and British town councils
10: Olympic riders
10: The crux of the matter
10: A lovely man and musician - Noel Davies
10: The man who could not escape - Lieutenant-Colonel Douggie Moir
10: A ÂŁ's worth
09: UPDATED - Elizabeth Beckett goes to court to defend British Constitution
09: Twenty20 Cricket takes India by song
09: A new singer - Duffy
09: A beautiful farewell
08: Calling a fiasco a fiasco
08: VE Day remembered
08: Green Lotus "will run on anything"
08: Did Shakespeare hear this music?
08: "You will not be overcome"
07: Liberalisation?
07: Sylva
07: Tax revolts
06: Feeling "a new unity with nature"
06: Boris appoints Lewis new deputy mayor of London
06: Wendy Alexander's interesting proposal
06: "Something greater at work"
06: "The Saudi Arabia of tidal energy"
05: The British people do not need PM Brown steering them
05: The Queen, travelling incognito, visits Exbury
05: The 'toff' who revived jazz - in Britain - Humphrey Lyttleton
03: Byrd and Tallis in Zambia
03: New Zealand accomplishes what the EU can't
03: Badminton
03: Boris wins big
03: PD James denounces political correctness
03: Cranford
02: Stuart Wheeler wins judicial review
02: Musical memories
02: Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict
02: Uncle Orson on Jane Austen
02: A great trouncing
02: Good pubs
01: May events
01: Looking for advocates of science and the western moral tradition
01: Driving at 60
01: Thoughts and Adventures

April 2008
30: BBC censorship faces High Court challenge
30: Lord Leach on EU's malign influence
30: "Grand knight of common sense" - CS Lewis
29: Visible and invisible patterns
29: Chesterton on newspapers, soldiers, sects, and barbarism
28: Around the country
28: Nelson at 250
28: A matter of loyalty
28: Standing up for their culture
26: 'Modern day Saint George'
26: Tourism 'Oscars'
26: Being reconfigured
25: Justice Owen, Rabinder Singh, and the promise-breaking government
25: Justice
24: Peaches for Roald Dahl Museum
24: Bob Spink MP
24: Parliament - redundant?
24: Upholders of liberty
23: Remembering Will
23: Happy St George's Day
22: Dreaming about summer in England
22: A community of values
21: Marathon addendum
21: Overcoming adversity
21: United we stand
20: Patriots' Day
19: Stiffening the House of Lords
19: William Morris and Astley Castle
19: No greater compliment - Mugabe attacks Britain
18: Free speech in Canada heating up
17: The chime of her voice
17: Catesby in America and at Buckingham Palace
17: Action before High Court
16: The 'Darwin' Chip
16: More than an antique land
16: Stem cells, nose cells and healing
16: JK Rowling refuses to cry
15: Running blind - Dave Heeley - 7 days 7 marathons
15: As long as one English field lies against another
14: Royal Mail under siege
14: Topping the culture chart
14: The Royal Navy and piracy
14: Oh!
14: London Marathon 2008
12: Libera and Patrick Stewart in New York
12: Green lawns, but no sheep, please
12: Judge rules that human rights apply to British troops
11: 'How England used to be'
11: The patriot who vanquished failure
11: Canadian bloggers fight for freedom of speech
10: William of Ockham's Razor
10: Feeling warmer?
10: JK Rowling and Ian McEwan top prize list
10: Author's copyright
10: It takes courage to speak out
09: O, to be in England now that April's there
09: Breaking the peace
09: I deeply love your country
09: Plus ça change. . .
08: Libera - celestial music from South London to Yankee Stadium and the world
08: Seeing Britain by train
08: Charlton Heston on Shakespeare
08: The gist of the Stop the Treaty Conference
07: "Power of the grid" - 10,000 times faster than broadband
07: Shakespeare's Wife
07: Success for Stop the Treaty
05: British track cyclists take gold at world championships
05: Immigration and government policies
05: Air Cdre Kit North-Lewis
05: Pauline Witherington Cornioley - Wartime agent
04: Cricket returns to America
04: 'Any man's death diminishes me'
03: 'People power can stop the Lisbon Treaty'
03: Go slow
03: The Falklands again
02: The bad, the good and the transcendent - Rudyard Kipling
02: Wealth + Wisdom
01: Territorial Army celebrates 100th birthday
01: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force
01: Enchantment
01: Stonehenge a healing centre?

March 2008
31: Peers defend democracy; push for referendum on EU treaty
31: Update - Operation Knights' Charge
31: Courage under fire
31: 150 years of Gray's "blood-stained copies"
29: 'Auntie Beeb' bets on global web empire
29: To be loved and cherished
28: Sarkozy's crème Chantilly
28: Odious
28: Australia's finest ambassadors
27: The Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race
27: Saying yes to if
27: The Golden Thread
26: How men feel
26: Stop the Treaty
25: "No science?"
25: Thirteen year-old Tom Daley wins European diving championship
25: Thinking about summer
24: Making all things new
24: American Responses to EU Corruption
22: In the country
22: The good in Good Friday
22: 'Artful, eh?'
21: EU Corruption
21: Paul Scofield
21: Defending the English language and free speech while cooking cheese steaks
20: Maundy Thursday for kings, presidents and prime ministers
20: Tom Stoppard
20: Gifts of freedom
20: Skill and teamwork
19: British experiences with the right to bear arms and what happened when they lost it
18: Arthur C Clarke
18: Anthony Minghella
18: Stop the treaty
18: Burke on virtue, vice, and liberty
18: “The Adventures of Dr. A. Conan Doyle”
17: Cool under fire - John Prott
17: The saint of second chances
17: MPs supporting patriotic amendment to Lisbon Treaty
15: Doris Lessing - "Provocateur"
15: British schools should teach Britain's inheritance
15: Lady Darcy de Knayth
15: Straight Talking Roger Helmer
14: To the Lords!
14: Foreshadowed by CS Lewis?
14: Europe's slow motion suicide
14: Cheltenham Festival
14: Stabat Mater in Liverpool
14: Melanie Phillips - another voice for common sense
13: Zoological Society of London photographs rare pygmy hippos
13: "Maxwell's wonderful equations"
13: If you found yourself in a new land. . .
12: Englishmen and football
12: Bravo for the serf
12: Inventor of the web, Berners-Lee looks to future
12: Gallantry and courage in Iraq and Afghanistan
12: SOS – Driving through the gaps in the Lisbon Treaty
12: A sense of humour gone missing?
11: British people - what do they believe - update
11: Building the Transatlantic Bridge
11: Lords prepare to fight for Britain
11: "You will not be overcome"
10: The billions flowing through Brussels
10: Remembering Commonwealth Day
08: Multiculturalism cannot survive
08: Facing his fear - Sqd Ldr Charles Patterson
08: A description of the anti-referendum MP
08: A friend in need
07: David Walliams crosses the sea
07: Happy birthday RHS
07: Explosive EU MEP Corruption Report
07: The notion that we rule ourselves is upheld. . .by 48
07: Looking for Lady Godiva
06: To the Tower
06: British men who loved and honoured their wives
06: Honour Roll
05: We expected it, but still. . .
05: Will they have the courage to hold a referendum? Britain's free future depends on it
05: Andrew Lloyd Webber finds Summer
05: The Scouring of the Shires
05: Stop the Treaty
04: Mathematical breakthrough solves long-standing problem
04: The next generation
04: Ties that bind
03: Lord Black - No obituary - Vale atque ave
03: Emailing your MP might be more your style
03: Dr Laura Grant, children and science
03: Princes pay tribute to the Armed Forces
03: “Poll shows overwhelming support for EU referendum”
01: Happy St David's Day
01: The March calendar is up
01: Write to your MP
01: Treason

February 2008
29: Gene for a cause of heart disease discovered in a "geneticist's paradise"
29: Men and stone - Shawn Williamson
28: Prince Harry in Afghanistan
28: New Anglosphere Forum
28: Innocence abroad
28: Coward's Vortex
27: Mass lobby of Parliament
27: William F. Buckley, RIP
27: "Love Bade Me Eat'
27: A duty that transcends party
26: Mass Lobby of Parliament gains support
26: Remembering the struggle for property rights
26: Scary and funny Wolf also receives Oscar
26: Night train
25: MPs for and against the promised referendum on the EU constitution
25: Scooping up Oscars
25: Janet Daley on fairness
25: Impending triumph?
25: New thoughts on Fairtrade, free trade and the EU
24: Evelyn Glennie
24: To become deaf and remain a musician - William Boyce
24: A Canadian view of The Queen
23: Revolts against the EU constitution
23: A feeling for Britain
23: Hoping from a distance
23: The stars by day
23: William Blake - Joy
22: George Washington - one of a kind
22: "The Queen is Canadian"
22: The Crystal Palace on exhibit
22: One hundred and fifteen EU MEPs oppose EU Lisbon Treaty
21: “A shot across the bow”
21: Britain on View
21: Brain drain
20: Changing your mind
20: Exploring Canada with Alexander Mackenzie
20: Brilliant British coroners, soldiers, and families – dud government
19: David Stogdon - No more lifeboat disasters
19: Recommended - Churchill on Wahhabism
19: About the size of it
19: Ribbet!
19: Domesday, the fiction of tenure, and the internet
18: A kingdom that does good
18: The silence at the heart of words
18: The EU and owning your own house
16: Gina Khan to speak on BBC
16: Sir Edmund Hillary lives on
16: One man defies politicization of the Crown
15: Beaumont sets world cycle record
15: Mass lobby of Parliament
15: Amateur astronomers in New Zealand help to discover solar system like ours
15: Orwell would applaud the Danes
14: Ode to men
14: The views of British writers on love and marriage
14: Responsible for Valentine's Day? Oh, gosh
14: Marrying-out is key to social progress
14: Carbon scams
13: "Life here is an open book"
13: Only the certain spring
13: Outlawing first cousin marriages was a good thing
13: Shakespeare against arranged marriages
12: Archbishop sharia update
12: Men in the snow
11: Sport of nations
11: London Fashion Week
11: The Red King and equality before the law
09: Anglican Church needs refresher course in Christianity
09: Miracles Of Life
09: Not tolerating the intolerant
09: Innovative infrared filming by the BBC captures the reclusive, elusive badger - rather as Kenneth Grahame described him
09: Sun's low magnetic activity may portend an ice age - UPDATE
08: Archbishop receives an almost universal and appalled No
08: Are we nearly there yet?
07: Brighton Court tiptoes away from PM's breach of contract
07: The energy and creativity of a people can ride out a storm
07: Heroes - Gordon and Joan Wilson
07: From ashes to light
07: Waiting to hear
06: New poll shows 74% of British people want say on EU treaty
06: Just because
06: The British have something to answer for
06: Harry Gregg
06: Flourishing Fairtrade
05: Why I like living in England
05: Eleutheria
04: Lulu
04: To thine own template be true
04: A vision of hospitality - The Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali
02: Defending freedom of speech in Canada - update
02: Snow falling today
02: Royal Navy and RAF rescues
02: The Gothic vision of GF Bodley
02: Cecil Gray
01: February Calendar up
01: Across the universe
01: An unsavoury tale
01: The ballots go out

January 2008
31: The definition of injustice
31: Sun's low magnetic activity may portend an ice age
31: Still at a loss, JK Rowling receives award
31: Jeremy Clarkson
30: Henry Moore
30: One ring to bind them all
29: The Victoria Cross
29: Are we confused?
29: A virtual human
29: Tribute to Women's Land Army, somewhat belated
29: Tribute to soldiers
29: Brigadier provides essential information
28: Top Gear in top gear
28: SAG honours Day-Lewis and Julie Christie
28: Wolf howling
28: Palimpsest
28: Patriots mount legal challenges
26: A new Miss Marple
26: A surprisingly candid report from National Public Radio
26: Congratulations, Australia
25: Bill Gates - a bit fuzzy about Adam Smith?
25: Robert Burns night
25: Ronald Harwood's creative struggle
24: Heath Ledger - when a game is no longer a game
24: Increasing brain performance in Alfred's day
24: John Thwing's miracle
24: Stella and David Gemmell defy death
24: subprime british humour
23: "I wish to live in a country that governs itself"
23: 743 years
22: No time for gardening
22: A pound of flesh
22: Fighting the EU treaty in the courts - update
22: Brighton Court says Prime Minister will have to defend breach of contract
21: Breaking news - Stuart Wheeler backs Judicial Review to defend British Constitution
21: "Outdoor activities"
20: Monday morning mystics
19: John Coward is hero of plane landing
19: Risking their lives
19: The importance of being earnest
19: Sleep secrets reduce heart attacks - Churchill's advice
18: An Englishman's castle
18: View from an Englishman's castle
18: A short response - zombies
18: An English slave mounts a rebellion on a corsair
18: Stuart Bower brings suit against Prime Minister
17: Bill Wilson in Antarctica
17: British author's thriller raises questions
17: The man to save Afghanistan?
16: The epiphany of Kik Woods
16: Arts old and new
16: "Nuts"
16: Precocious Pugin
15: British Museum alive and well
15: 2008 Heritage Foundation/WSJ Index of Economic Freedom & Prosperity – top 10 countries
15: James Madison on the EU
15: Scotland Yard traces Bhutto murderer
15: “Popular British exports” – gifted female singers – Laura Marling
14: The master of suspense on politics
14: Do men forget those they love sooner than women?
14: The spiritual ideas behind common law
14: Elizabeth Beckett goes to court to defend British Constitution
12: Blair despair
12: Freedom of speech and thought in Canada
12: Blogging the World War One experiences of a British soldier
12: Foster+Partners
12: A history of the Crystal Palace
11: Sir Edmund Hillary RIP
10: "The Constitution that She has taken Her Oath to support"
09: "We now have a large number of American and British officers who can pick up a phone from Washington or London and call an Iraqi officer that he knows well—an Iraqi he has fought along side of—and talk"
09: John Colvin RIP
09: John Galloway files Complaint with Parliamentary Ombudsman
09: EURO-CREEP
08: O, Defoe, where are you?
07: Regarding Lionheart
07: Twelfth Night revisited
05: Not afraid of falling on his face - Richard Branson
05: Preventing tribalism in Britain
05: Cary Grant fusion
05: Another threat to freedom of speech in the Anglosphere
04: George Macdonald Fraser
04: Dr Johnson on language and politicians
04: The Irishness of Britain and the Britishness of Ireland, British Values, & other subjects
03: Trying to save an old police station and prison in Hong Kong - a curious case of the long reach of the law?
03: Jane Austen goes on television once again
02: Urgent Appeal to The Queen
02: Jack Aubrey in the country
01: Freedom and friendship
01: Small is successful

December 2007
31: Hello, hello
31: Thanks to readers of our website and best wishes for a very happy new year
31: John Wycliffe – "the language not of angels but of Englishmen"
29: The Anglosphere as it is and might be
29: The Water-Horse - a book and movie for children
29: Westminster Abbey and the deep foundations of freedom
28: Paul Johnson on the five essential qualities of a democratic leader
27: White House stem cell policy influenced by fears of Huxley's Brave New World
27: Obituaries
27: Fragrance in the garden
27: 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance
27: Peter Pan's children
27: “Who Dares, wins”
26: Happy Boxing Day
26: The Attenborough Film Awards, Richard Attenborough on Gandhi, and the opening of his new film
26: Not so surprisingly Russians love PG Wodehouse
26: The good deeds of Bill Deedes continue
26: “Because that would most rejoice His heart”
24: George Washington on Christmas Eve
24: God rest ye, merry
22: Journey toward freedom and love
22: SOS
22: "The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me"
21: God Save The Queen
21: In the spirit of Christmas - Coldplay Chris Martin is a dab hand with plumbing
21: A British Christmas
21: What does Gisela know?
21: All is Bright - A Yorkshire Lad’s Christmas

20: "Jeez" - Magna Carta update
20: Is The Queen a prisoner?
20: "The Queen's actions cause for concern?"
20: The QE2 and her fate
19: Defending the freedom of our children and grandchildren
19: The man remembers the boy's sorrow
18: Carrying on after Steve Irwin's death
18: Magna Carta, 'birth certificate of freedom', to stay in US
18: "Saucy" William Penn and the momentum of action
17: Happy (belated) birthday, Jane Austen
17: Rescuing Britain from the EU - "Outdoor activities"
16: Responding to the signing of the EU Treaty
16: "Lions of Basra welcomed home"
15: Turner on both sides of the Atlantic
15: There will be a battle in the House of Lords
15: What is this evidence of?
15: The EU - doomed to fail
15: Love in Derbyshire
14: Golden future for Atonement
14: 100 scientists oppose UN climate conference
14: One hundred years of children's books - Oxford
14: The Lord Nelson and the Tenacious
13: The seductiveness of the inner circle - why Brown signed the treaty
13: “Free to Play”
13: Oil on Troubled Waters
12: The City of London and the EU Treaty
12: Magna Carta for sale
12: Giving richly
12: The road out of serfdom
11: Led Zeppelin returns - the Song remains the same
11: Lighting up the political night - parish polls
11: Interested in freedom then
11: Messiah!
10: New SolarLite, brainchild of fireman, could replace cat's eyes on highways
10: PM, in Iraq, says that "war is over" for British troops; not really, Prime Minister
10: LA Film Critics name Day-Lewis best actor
08: A note on forgiveness
08: Britons who don't know where Jesus was born may know things more important to Jesus
07: Peers battle to defend Britain; attack EU ‘Reform’ Treaty
07: Foundling Museum reopens with Hogarth, Gainsborough
06: Panto
06: Getting to the bottom of education
06: The reason for government
05: Theatre in the United Kingdom
05: Coalition success in Afghanistan; the Afghan Sandhurst
05: The Oak and the British Constitution
04: A comparison of British rights and the American Bill of Rights
03: First offshore wind farm in deep water
03: "Merry, feisty, blunt and fair"
03: Their children’s children
03: Writing a blank cheque
02: December Calendar up
01: Scots say no to Donald Trump
01: Festival of Trees
01: On Blackstone and an obsessive-compulsive disorder
01: Hunting Act conviction quashed

November 2007
30: The Union Flag, then
30: St Andrew's Day
30: Going through hell - Winston Churchill
29: "Men of Valor: Part III"
29: At The Kilns with CS Lewis
29: European Scutiny Committee catches sight of the wolf
28: The Invisible College
28: William Blake's 250th
27: Is the earth really cooling? Harper stays cool
27: The Constitution, Norris McWhirter, The Queen, the government and the EU
27: Country people
26: Liberty, prosperity, and David Cameron
26: The valour of the mechanics
26: Does a Briton have the right to bear arms for his or her defence?
25: From the one man left awake
25: Best of British win Tennessee BBQ
24: A time to keep silence
24: "Australia will miss this bloke"
24: The pillar box - designed by the people
24: "The authors of our own misfortunes"
23: "Afghans unite in passion for cricket"
23: Remembering Lord Deedes
23: Buried treasures discovered
23: Commonwealth in the news
23: English apple pie
22: Thank you
21: Scared to death - 2
21: A friendly, helping hand
21: Cold comfort
20: Breaking the silence
20: "The West's anti-westernism"
20: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments”
19: One ring to rule them all
19: Making the invisible visible – Vancouver, BC
18: "There is a cleavage"
18: Good job, Fittleton – parish poll backs referendum
18: A bit late we wish Petula Clark a happy 75th
17: A few changes here
17: Dawkins's angel
16: A face that travels - Machin's Elizabeth II
16: There was an old woman
16: Children of a common mother
15: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss in Raising Sand
15: Hillary Clinton and the House of Commons
15: The European Union Court of Auditors condemns EU’s fraud, mismanagment and waste
15: Decision Time
15: Cheltenham this weekend
14: The Queen may refuse to give Her Royal Assent
14: Albion’s Seed
14: The light in Shadowlands
13: About attractiveness
13: Curmudgeon on Coward
13: Happy sailing with fuel cells
12: Arguing about flags
12: Another politician starts to see the light – Baroness Williams of Crosby
12: Tutankhamun returns
12: Graham Clark - Apartheid opponent and Chad Varah - founder of Samaritans and sex counsellor
11: Remembering
10: Here's looking at you, kid - The Royal Society reports
10: Scufflings - Thomas Rainborowe
10: Ignore her halo - Margery Kempe
09: For your calendar - Remembrance Day
09: The Battle of Barroso and the path
08: Rupert Bear at 88
08: Joni Mitchell
08: Support the troops says UKNDA
08: Global Vision denounces Brown's betrayal
08: Vivian Linacre's General Rule - Measures explained
07: National Trust will battle Government
07: Rejuvenated St Pancras
06: Catesby in America when America was wild
06: Thinking about humour – missing from some people? – and The Queen’s speech
06: The First Day of the Blitz - New book suggests victory was won in first 12 hours
05: 'Gutsy lady'
05: Remember, remember
05: The pace quickens
05: The right to self-defence
05: Scared to death
03: ""What the new atheists don't see
03: Rocket man
03: ‘Cockpit of England’ – Broughton Astley calls for referendum on EU
03: Ridley Scott and American Gangster
02: Poets, scientists, social reformers, MPs, saints
01: Calendar up
01: Silent Change, London
01: Wall Street Journal wakes up to EU threat
01: Grass-roots Conference to open 4 November
01: Education improvements
01: Gaining on cancer

October 2007
31: Goings-on in the theatre
31: Peckham's beautiful club
31: Michael Rowntree
31: Winston Churchill's 'secret' brother
30: Golden rules from Tim Congdon
30: Champagne, music and love - Ursula Vaughan Williams
30: Divine music
29: "British dominate list of living geniuses"
29: Comet Holmes
29: Saturday night with PG Wodehouse
27: Rallying
27: The Lives of Others
26: Alfred's modern leadership lessons
26: Pro-referendum, pro-freedom rally
25: Modern Britain through the Eyes of Its Cartoonists
24: And the animals
24: Sir Andrew Green on uncontrolled immigration
24: Remembering the world - Eric Newby
23: Threats to freedom - Islamofascism
23: An uncomfortable truth
23: Back from an adventure, McGregor blasts 'nanny state'
23: Mellon Collection of British Art in Britain
23: Town rescues children
22: Thinking
22: Blogging ridiculous
22: Costs of immigration
20: What is this poison? Of course there is a British Constitution
20: Oh, dear! Springboks end England's reign as world champions
20: Having a good time
19: Shaw's Pygmalion exposes the progressive snob
19: Appreciation in Afghanistan
19: A thousand years of self-government coming to an end?
18: "Banked fires" - Deborah Kerr
18: Extraordinary 13th century people
18: Honesty
17: Soldiers come home from Afghanistan
17: The Whisperers, God and Gold
16: Ruth Lea on morning in Britain
16: Bruges Group uncovers EU plan
16: The Princess Diana inquest judge
16: Peter Roberts hits the news
16: Refusing to accept defeat
15: Leaving the United Nations
15: “I freeze and yet am burned”
15: Shared heritage of America and Britain
15: Mothers at Armed Forces Memorial
14: More World Cup news
13: Nature of Britain
13: Why Greenwich Mean Time
13: British Navy guarding Iraq
12: ""No wonder they're great if their women are like that"
12: London October 27 Pro-Referendum rally
12: A word about men
12: Remembering their sacrifice - National Memorial Arboretum
12: Arboretum note
11: Nicholas Winton - rescuing children
11: Lorry driver tackles a less than certain truth
11: Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for Literature
10: Thoughts about immigration figures
10: Entrepreneurs begin to revolt
10: A boy in Britain - Robert Hooke - lost manuscript online
09: House of Commons Committee calls a spade a spade
09: CS Lewis and late-flowering love
09: British scientists share Nobel Prize in Medicine
09: Throwing stone roses at the Q Awards
09: Cheers and tears - Pride of Britain Awards
09: If something needs doing -
08: RAF contributions
08: World Cup update
08: Major Lex Roberts - a hero dies; government incompetence plays role
07: A country card
06: William Tyndale
06: Jason Lewis - circling the world with muscle power
06: Rugby
06: Honouring a young man
05: Book lovers at Cheltenham
05: And When Did You Last See Your Father?
05: Inquest into death
04: British Special Forces at work in Afghanistan
04: Rock 'n Roll omissions
04: The Anglosphere
04: Twelfth Night advice
04: Camping with the Boys Brigade
03: The right to bear arms
03: Mallory first on Everest?
02: Intangible wealth
02: Ten peaks for Robert Steel
02: Lee Miller at V&A
01: Your true face
01: October Calendar up

September 2007
30: English heritage
29: Peel's bobbies
29: Jeff Watson and the Golden Eagle
29: A creative response
28: Freedom and Christianity
27: Reason and Christianity
27: Oh, lovely! 315,000 Images of England at English Heritage
27: Shy millionaire leaves money to children's hospice
26: Millais at the Tate
25: Tax ideas - bound to irritate somebody
25: Fountains and fires – Lancelot Andrewes
24: The SUN - EU is greatest threat to liberty
24: Manliness - Walter Bagehot
23: Aidan
22: Historic first - East Stoke calls for referendum on EU
22: Sir Timothy Berners-Lee on women
21: A transatlantic leap - Christopher Wheeldon
21: Silver financial linings
21: First Post
20: For women we have. . . for men. . .
20: Courage in September, 1944
19: About lions for curious readers
18: Bloom in Strasbourg
18: Enjoying England
18: A different kind of sage – Timothy Sprigge
18: A graceful denunciation of Mr Brown by Christopher Booker
18: Armed robbery
17: Accomodation and respect from Muslim citizens for the common law
17: Hang on
17: Diamond Light Source to uncover secrets of rare scrolls
17: Gordon Brown and the golden goose
16: Seeing their true faces
15: Victory - Paul Potts
15: Hew Butler
15: Celebrating with English roses
14: Does The Queen do anything for us?
13: UPDATED - King Alfred and the survival of our children
13: Foot and mouth disease and Sir Albert Howard
13: Unions strike blow for freedom
12: Daring to see the role of faith
12: “A safe pair of hands” - Sir Tasker Watkins, VC
12: Wild beauty
12: The mystery of history
11: Theodore Dalrymple writes about good and evil in the New English Review
11: Stem cell pioneer - Dr Edward Boyse
11: The beacons are being lit - parish polls
11: 9-11-1777 With courage and luck revolutionaries survive battle
10: The handsomeness of age
10: "You have liberated a people"
10: “By God, England will not fall while I am Queen”
10: People of East Stoke first to vote in parish polls on EU constitution as demand for referendum grows
09: To Autumn
08: Reading Mister Pip
08: Goodbye, Pavarotti
07: Love and war at Dunkirk
07: Response to hardline Islamic sect in Britain
07: The Unnatural History of the Sea - new book on restoring fish and fishing
07: RAF Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire - “All the characteristics of a saint”
06: Spaceport for Virgin Galactic's White Knights and Spaceships
06: Reflections on Saunton beach
06: Geoff Holt's 'personal Everest'
06: A horn sounds
05: Evolving personal style in the country – Stella Tennant
05: Into "the drink"
05: Britain on the Brink Conference
05: “Out of doors political activity”
04: So brave - Jane Tomlinson
04: The man who loved plants - Graham Stuart Thomas
03: Life Savers
03: Looking for Robin Hood
03: A Plain Man’s Guide
03: In the garden
03: Bryn Terfel in the sun
03: "Pooh, whatever happens. . ."
02: Thanks to the Czech Foreign Minister for remembering a fine principle
01: Two British Christians and Mother Teresa
01: We stand

August 2007
31: Thank you, Princess, for not wearing a scarf
31: BBC Proms
31: September calendar up
30: Bruges Group alert on Euro-Creep
30: Protecting animals - the unstoppable Richard Martin
29: The young men who saved Australia
29: Paying for poverty
29: A pattern
29: A good anniversary
28: Explorer, conservationist and mentor - John Blashford-Snell
28: Pat Barker and bloody moral dilemmas
27: "British openings"
27: In praise of Isaac Watts and Jane Turnbull
25: The Barbour
25: Remarkable women
25: Couldn't resist
25: Atonement to open
24: Tragedy in Afghanistan
23: The diamond of truth
23: Brits abroad - medical report from Chester County, PA
22: Exodus
22: Building a camera to capture light from the distant past
22: To strive, to seek, to find. . .
21: A Georgian gem - Theatre Royal reopens
21: Help for Helmand villagers; morale boost for British troops
21: Quest for hidden treasures in libraries
20: Culture of celebrity
20: Battlefield chivalry in West Chester and Iraq
20: Cathedral Voices at Chester
18: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW – the power of ideas, the courage of women, hospitality, and what if?
18: If you are going to send them into harm's way, give them the equipment they need
18: Bill Deedes
18: What if?
17: Newfoundland hospitality and a sea view
16: Thoughts about enchantment in England – church and chapel
15: 'Blood Eagle'
15: A woman, a man and a boy - sailing the blue sea
14: Women are marvellous - Roz Savage
14: They wanted their children to be free
14: Expanded file on Hidcote
13: What's wrong with the world and a revealing joke or two
13: "What is rigid gently bend"
13: Small injuries may become fatal
13: "The Queen feels very let down."
12: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW – humour, covert & overt actions, poets, painters, revolutionary captains, mothers & older men
11: George Stubbs and the Kingdom of Animals
11: Mixed feelings
11: World markets and a garden
10: Older men
10: British humour – Riding tandem
09: For mothers and grandmothers
09: Defiant John Paul Jones off Flamborough Head
08: Overt and covert actions
07: Catching up to Anne Finch
06: Pulling at our heartstrings - A British philosopher, an American theatre critic and a dead Mexican woman remind us what counts
05: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW – beautiful, spirited girls; fine boys; luminous science; Gibbon on the EU and patriotism; golf, music, and Edinburgh
04: Our own free country
04: Dismembered and remembered
04: Patriotism according to Gibbon - yes!
04: Maxwell's luminous ideas
03: Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe
03: Buckingham Palace annual summer opening
03: BBC - Good news and cause for wonder
03: One hazard of European-wide government according to Gibbon
03: British names in view
02: Green thoughts
02: Gibbon exposes the stratagems of power
01: Slavery abolished; Scouting started
01: Mailbag of music
01: Purring along nicely
01: Multiple Sclerosis breakthrough
01: A light break
01: Gibbon describes Rome and the EU

July 2007
31: Bibliotherapy - Reading your way to health
31: Golf in India
31: Why I like girls - "Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants"
30: The perfect is the enemy of the good
30: "In our hands"
30: Many honest Labour MPs
30: Why I like boys - An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet
30: “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date”
28: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW
28: The Knight - Never a dull moment defending Magna Carta
27: English art from the 11th century
27: Pre-EU free trade: a tale of Offa and Charlemagne
26: Lovely giving
26: Chawton House Library, Jane Austen, and women writers
26: Our liberty has already been paid for, but may have to be purchased again
25: Sight is returning - MPs oppose Reform Treaty
25: Douglas Carswell MP - "I say the only way is out"
24: Irishman Padraig Harrington and the Open's 18th hole
24: Shire horse in Tennessee may break world record for height
24: Babbage's ideas inspire architecture of nano computers
24: The Lord's Knight
23: Gallant efforts to keep waters at bay and spirits up
23: For the sake of one man or woman
23: Dreamcoat with an amazing technicolor plan
23: At Bury St Edmunds
23: Ploughman's
22: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW
21: A review of the early reviews of Harry
21: An English hero
20: The curious case of the usurped executive
20: P.S. There's so much more to say about Imperial -
19: Jane Austen and slavery
19: Imperial College London celebrates 100th anniversary and 1st
19: "The childless couple who adopted eight scared, troubled children"
19: BBC Mea Culpa?
18: The gifts of radar and wheat
18: The Open
18: A friend like that
17: A little laughter
17: The bedrock of country life
16: Donald “Duckmouse” Michie - AI man and prophet
16: The emperor's new clothes
16: Of magic cloaks and Classical Greek thought
16: "He's back"
15: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW
14: Swan upping
13: Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones – delicious as a peach
13: Justice in the courts
13: Vanguard of the referendum
12: In the forest
12: Hopeful vigilance
11: ‘Ripeness is all’ – William Hooker and Charles John Robertson
11: Shock waves of Empire
11: King's College London finds link between more moles and reduced rate of aging
11: BRITANNIA RADIO
11: Opposition to EU's stealth constitution growing
10: Wonderful things juries are
10: Harry Potter's message
10: Alan Dower Blumlein - an essential contribution
09: The Castle by Edwin Muir
09: A good sporting weekend
08: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW
07: The Lych-Gate
06: Declaration of independence from the EU
05: Lovely common sense - thank you, Matt, Roger, and Neil
05: The power of words
05: Two messages to terrorists
04: Happy Fourth
03: Henley Royal Regatta
03: Which doctors does the NHS prefer?
02: Garden open tomorrow
02: The Princes please
02: Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy on vacation
02: Responses to Islamic terror
02: A confession
01: Happy Canada Day
01: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW

June 2007
30: Hidcote at 100 and the Major's flamingos
30: "Quick-thinking cop"
30: Jonathan Ive's iPhone
30: Right to silence
29: The counties of England
29: "Is democracy the same as freedom?"
29: People power
28: "Without all those men and women, none of us would be here"
28: Scottish Traditional Boat Festival
28: Onward! Cards, calls, faxes, emails
28: Eeyore on communicating
28: Cometh the hour, cometh the men and women
27: St George in Baghdad
27: Monica Mavis Furlong - the spirit of women in the Church
27: Petitions
27: A poor history student discovers the surprising Act of Settlement
26: Shakespeare's Globe celebrates 10th anniversary
26: Shakespeare reviews Tony Blair upon his return from Brussels
25: Churchill's practical Idealism
25: SBS in Afghanistan
25: All eyes on Wimbledon, including Hawk-eye
25: Real democracy is local
24: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW - FIERY SPIRITS
23: New EU agreement makes stealthy and devastating attack on liberty
23: Your own choice
22: They wanted the gifts of St Alban
22: Helmer calls for referendum
22: Another case of the people knowing best
21: "Fiery spirits" in the country
21: We await the conclusions of the EU summit with some interest
21: July Calendar of Cultural & Sporting Events is up
20: Flowers of the Orient in Britain - and overlooked beauties
20: A beautiful human creation
20: Apples, butter, cheese, making love
20: The good news: Just published BBC Trust Report shows that public has not been brainwashed
19: How to watch Royal Ascot
19: "Fantastic" British soldiers in Iraq
19: Of aspirin as a cancer and heart disease fighter and the Oxford Journals
19: Another British journalist sees the light
19: At least one honest Lord
18: Battle of Waterloo
18: Royal Lancers in Iraq - "good to the people"
18: "The most accurate and creative right foot in recent...memory" - that would be David Beckham's right foot
18: A very brave woman - Jasvinder Sanghera
18: Posturing over an EU referendum?
18: Britain's got talent in the most unlikely places - Paul Potts
18: BBC takes a first step
18: "To have both Brits doing well - I think it's great for the country"
17: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW
16: Thinking about Magna Carta, the barons and Tony Blair
16: Honoured on The Queen's Birthday - gongs fail to please everyone
15: Interview with the Princes
15: Patrick Minford defends consumer; calls for EU to bring down protectionist barriers
15: News about Laurie Baker in India
15: "A great day for the British and American constitutions"
15: The Knight - Never a dull moment on the road to Runnymede - Part 7
13: The Knight - Riding into the rough - Part 5 and The Lord's Knight - Part 6
13: Thoughts about education - a new row
13: What will Tony Blair sign on 22 June?
12: Wild Scotland
12: Science behind grand prix success
12: The Queen's Royal Lancers in Iraq - Part 3
12: Falklands War ends 14 June 1982
12: A "legend", Corporal Rodney Wilson
12: World War II through the eyes of downed airmen
12: A New Testament scholar looks at the book by Christopher Hitchens
11: On this day - a round-robin of artists, inventors, rebels, sportsmen and explorers
11: Thinking about the Lion and the Unicorn
11: Apollo lecture focuses on Stowe
11: The antidote to dependency
11: Hamilton takes brilliant win at Canadian Grand Prix
10: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW
09: Sony warriors in Manchester Cathedral
09: Changes in scale
09: Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in Iraq
09: Country trials and shows - adventurous pigs
09: Lord Pearson's Bill, Implications for Withdrawal from the EU, receives second reading in House of Lords
08: James Shikwati - "For God's sake, please just stop"
08: "The worse it got, the better they got."
08: GK Chesterton on the grand theorists of the EU; local governments and empires
08: The man-trap of the EU Arrest Warrant
07: Are all justice systems equal?
07: The Knight - Part 4
06: Hmm. . .British design breakthroughs
06: This is what he fought for on a beach in Normandy
06: Get your skates on - contact the Lords
05: The world is not a cake, says Dalrymple
05: Adequate support for British Armed Forces personnel?
05: The British in Palestine
05: Brits routing Al Qaeda in Iraq
04: Out in the Iraqi desert with The Queen's Royal Lancers
04: Darcey Bussell says goodbye
04: More joys of multiculturalism
04: Synergistic energy
04: "Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved"
04: When you go home, tell them of us and say: 'For your tomorrow we gave our today'
03: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW
03: Hitchens vs Hitchens on God
02: Frank Whittle - on a jet plane
02: Land of Hope and Glory
02: Happy birthday, Sir Edward Elgar
01: Lear's "noble anger"
01: Quest for the Holy Grail
01: Two years ago today
01: Forty years ago today
01: The West Lothian driver

May 2007
31: A buzz in the west
31: A proposal for government
31: TB danger
31: THE KNIGHT - Fighting to hold the centre - Part 3
30: "A whole greater by far than the sum of its parts"
30: UK urged to reestablish global vision on trade
30: Maoris declare New Zealand "a Christian nation"
30: Why are modern novels "so bloody boring?"
30: SmithGlaxoKline attacks elephantiasis and obesity
30: French carp yields British record
29: Waking up to the language of dictatorship
29: Folding is NOT British form
28: The Tower of Babel
28: Memorial Day personal
28: "Broad sunlit uplands"
28: British media growing force in American news
28: Tony Blair - having it both ways
28: The London Eye
28: Looking at this weekend's Wall Street Journal
27: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW
27: Get a wig
27: “A strange fleet appeared”
26: Drinks for British soldiers, and thanks
26: Walking in the country
26: Trust in the City
26: Trust
26: A way with words at Dartington
26: A message to those participating in National Shooting Week
25: Open air theatre at the Regent's Park
25: Roger Helmer, MEP, talks vision and sense
25: Promoting respect for and understanding of firearms
25: A ÂŁbillion here, a ÂŁbillion there. . .
25: THE KNIGHT - Tournaments, chivalry and assassinations - Part 2
24: The Infant - a steam-powered car in 1831
24: The Knight
24: Exciting solutions for schools
23: The Queen presents medals for gallantry
23: The Abraham Darbys
23: Hay 20
22: ‘I believe that I was born to be an actor’ - Laurence Olivier
22: Rethinking education
22: "Tit for tat"
21: What magnanimity does not mean
21: "The limits of Churchill's magnanimity"
21: The Zulu handshake
21: Inspired by Baden-Powell
21: 25th anniversary of landing at San Carlos Water
21: Victoria Day
21: Cutty Sark burning
21: Chelsea Flower Show opens
21: Peers rally behind public's right to know
20: BRITS WEEK IN REVIEW and the Dam Busters
19: