The good news is that Saga Norén will be back on the beat in November, complete with leather trousers and the vintage green Porsche. The Bridge is returning for its third series, and aficionados throughout the country will be busy re-arranging their Saturday dinner parties and taking the phone off the hook. So who is Saga? She is a top cop, a brilliant and
A fascinating story in the Sunday Times (October 25 2015). From the Norman Conquest to the 15C the language of the English court and the nobility was of course French. Not too many people are aware of this, possibly due to the way they teach history these days but it was a fact that English was definitely the language of
The Daily Mail’s campaign “Betrayal of the Brave” to persuade Mr Cameron and his colleagues to grant Afghan interpreters asylum in the UK seems to be paying off. (see our blogs The plight of Afghani interpreters (continued), Afghani interpreters still left to their fate, John Oliver on “Translators”: The plight of Afghani interpreters). The paper reports (October 17) that “Sam”, whose life was
Countries of the Arab world have played an important role in geo-politics in the past century or so. Sadly, the current situation is one of turmoil rather than the orderly progression of society. It was not always so. From the 7C to the 13C, Arab learning dominated world civilisation, whilst European nations were still struggling to create their own distinct