On November 11, 1919 the British Empire stopped to stand in silence on Remembrance Day for the first time.

Two men usually share the credit for proposing the two minute’s silence: South African author and politician Sir Percy FitzPatrick and Australian soldier and journalist Edward Honey. In May 1919 Honey wrote a letter to the London...

On the day after what has arguably been one of the more troubling outcomes in American presidential history, the world’s financial markets gyrated upwards. But no-one should be under any illusion that a transition from a Democrat administration to one led by an unknown quantity...

No mainstream observer expected this. Donald Trump was not supposed to win the GOP primary, let alone the White House. Yet, here we are.

This was always an election that would favour a change candidate, but conventional wisdom said that the reality TV star was not plausible in a general election. But he turned his complete lack of political...