I had been planning to write an article about UKIP this week, aiming to explore their views; how they promote those views; why they have become more popular and the implication for British...
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This old bridge in Texas, built in 1910, caught on fire. Volunteer firefighters struggled for 15 hours to put out the flames , which is still used for freight transport through Texas. The...
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This video makes even my mundane job look like a blissful walk across white sands with a pint of Guinness in each hand. This is just a short clip of factory life in China. Dark...
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Mr Wen Shu, 58, lives in Jilin City, in northwestern China in an apartment block. He’s lived there for 35 years. He was asked to move out by developers who wanted to build a...
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These photographs feature what was once a tourist town in Buenos Aires, Argentina called Villa Epecuen. The town was established in the 1920s on the banks of a salt lake, and housed around 5,000...
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This is the kind of Russian art that seems really Russian. A guy in St Petersburg called Pyotr Pavlensky wrapped himself up in barbed wire and waited there, naked, to get cut out by...
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My last post about flags caused some controversy, so I need to reconfirm my stance: I know that to some people, flags are symbols of imperialism and even racism. This is undoubtedly true. But...
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Yeah, I like flags. To some they’re symbols of misplaced national pride or a banner to wave over the down trodden. But we mustn’t blame the flag for that. It is the flag waver...
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I wrote a post recently about Saparmurat Niyazov, one of the craziest despots in living memory. His reign over Turkmenistan was cut short by an eagerly awaited heart attack in 2006. His successor Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow spent some...
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I recently published a post showcasing some of the most glorious flags of the world. This time, I’m focusing on regional flags from Japan. Japan has individual flags for each of it’s prefectures,...
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