Charles Ellingworth

You can’t get away from Napoleon in this anniversary year of Waterloo: books, TV programs and endless magazine articles. He, rightly, cont...

Dr Eban Alexander is a neurosurgeon of some distinction. He describes himself and a C and E - Christmas and Easter - Christian, convinced th...

Ok. I admit it. I love Abba. Is there a better dance anthem than Dancing Queen? Or a sadder song than The Winner Takes It All?  What everyon...

I was going through my address book recently and I was struck by how many people I know; not close friends but people who you have a drink...

In 2011, Watson, the IBM developed computer decisively won Jeopardy, the highly sophisticated general knowledge quiz show. It was seen as a ...

I had always thought that all early photography was Daguerreotype; those pictures of frock coated men and crinoline women staring fixedly at...

I sat next to a partner of one of the bigger London law firms recently. He told me, almost with pride, that they lose nearly 30% of their ne...