Royal Marines

A very British coup: SBS – Silent Warriors reviewed

4 September 2021 9:00 am

The vast majority of the British public, and even military historians, have never heard of them. COPPists — a combination…

Nimoy and Shatner in ‘The Man Trap’, the first episode of Star Trek (September 1966)

Close encounters on the starship Enterprise

5 March 2016 9:00 am

For a show with a self-proclaimed ‘five-year mission’, Star Trek hasn’t done badly. Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Wagon train to the stars’…

Always prone to depression: David Astor c.1946

David Astor: the saintly, tormented man who remade the Observer

5 March 2016 9:00 am

Before embarking on this book, Jeremy Lewis was told by his friend Diana Athill that his subject, the newspaper editor…

Life on board a warship in our much-reduced Royal Navy

6 February 2016 9:00 am

Life on board a warship in the era of defence cuts