Charles Ellingworth

If you ask most people what they want from life, most will say to be happy. Probe further, ask what they mean by ‘happy’, and you will get s...

Christmas cards; what has gone wrong? In days of yore they were income for charities and a means of acknowledging, once a year, a family or ...

When asked how a friend in London had broken her leg, Dorothy Parker answered, 'Probably sliding down a barrister.'

I'm not one for horror - books or movies. I have an overactive imagination and don't need to dwell on that space. Unfortunately, fac...

Hong Kong has a super-efficient and very cheap taxi service. The drivers are very Cantonese and rarely speak more than basic English. It was...

On the 9th November 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. It is also the anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1938. On that same day, every year, a con...

We caught the commuter train from Thane, a city of two million north of Mumbai into the centre. There is no polite waiting for those disemba...