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In 1660, after 11 years of a republic, the monarchy was restored in England with the start of King Charles II's reign. Just as few months after the Restoration, the Royal Society was founded. It is the world's oldest scientific institution, and is a fitting organisation for a country which has...

Britain's politicians are famous for producing a load of s**t, so you would think they would ensure that there is plenty of toilet paper at the Palace of Westminster. But the "Honourable Members" were left desperate yesterday as it emerged that staff responsible for looking after the Commons...

I'm not sure I agree with Lord Monckton on his views that the global warming loonies want to set up a communistic world government. But I do believe that the West's obsession with "climate change" is looney. I just think goverments have invented the whole idea of "climate change" just as an...

A boy, dubbed the "seven-year-old Picasso" has sold his art for £17,000 in just 14 minutes. Buyers from places such as Canada and Japan paid more than £1,000 each to buy one of Kieron Williamson's 16 watercolours, oils and pastels of the English countryside. Kieron and his parents never knew...

The 19th Century was "Britain's century", just as the 20th Century was "America's century" and the 21st Century is likely to become "China's century." The 1800s saw Britain dominate the world economy. Not only did it have the world's largest economy, it was a mighty manufacturing powerhouse...

The tiny central African nation of Rwanda has become the 54th member of the Commonwealth. Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad & Tobago have admitted Rwanda into the organisation because it has shown "tremendous progress" over the last 15 years. Despite it being a former...

Tomorrow (30th November) may be St Andrew's Day, Scotland's national day, but the event is going to be overshadowed by something which, to the Scots, is something truly horrific: the introduction of an ENGLISH whisky. The malt Chapter 6, made by the English Whisky Co, is England's first new...

It has always been known that Margaret Thatcher got by on just a few hours of sleep a night whilst British Prime Minister, but during the 1982 Falklands War against Argentina she didn't even get that much. Throughout the war, Thatcher stayed up in Downing Street all night and never changed...

"Global Warming" is either a deliberate scam, in which it gives the West's leaders an excuse to tax us (and it is just the West that seems to believe in Global Warming. Countries such as China and India just don't believe in it) by introducing a "Save The Polar Bears Tax", or Western leaders and...

14th October 1066 ranks alongside 30th July 1966 as the most famous date in English history. The Battle of Hastings took place on 14th October 1066, when the English took on the invading Normans. When the English king, Edward the Confessor, died on 5th January 1066, it should have seen his...

In 2007, Moira Cameron became the first female Yeoman Warder - or Beefeater - in their 500 year history. At the time, there were those, including fellow Beefeaters, who thought that a woman should not have been allowed to become a Beefeater. Now two Beefeaters have been sacked for harrassing...

British engineers have started building what they hope will be the world's fastest car, capable of reaching 1,000mph. The Bloodhound will be powered by a jet engine from a Eurofighter and a hybrid rocket. This combination should produce 135,000 horsepower — equivalent to the power of 180...

According to William Blake's poem "And Did Those Feet In Ancient Times" or, as it is most commonly known, "Jerusalem", written in 1808, a young Jesus once travelled to what is now England accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea and visited Glastonbury, a town in Somerset which is supposed...

Two men have been arrested after Northern Irish cops exchanged gunfire with Irish republicans as a car bomb was planted outside the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) base. The shooting incident happened in County Fermanagh near the British border with the Republic of Ireland. The car...

We all know that America and Britain, enemies 200 years ago, are now best buddies. Such good buddies in fact that it's now got to the point where a politician from one country fancies a politician from the other. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has revealed in an interview for...

Spain has accused the Royal Navy of using the Spanish national flag for machine gun target practice. Britain's ambassador to Spain, Giles Paxman (the brother of the BBC's "Newsnight" presenter Jeremy Paxman), was forced to apologise after sailors onboard HMS Scimitar fired at a red-and-yellow...

The heaviest rainfall ever recorded in England has caused severe flooding in the county of Cumbria, leaving a least one person dead. Parts of the county - which is the location of the Lake District - have seen almost 11 inches of rainfall, possibly almost 13 inches in some areas, in just two...

The 13th February 1692 witnessed one of the most infamous events in British history. In 1688, the Protestant William of Orange arrived in England with his army. His aim was to overthrow the Catholic, and unpopular, King James II and make himself king. James II clearly hadn't heeded events...

A marriage is usually seen as a happy occasion, an event where you hope the married couple will have many years of life and happiness together. So it seems unusual to be married in a church. But that's was Samantha Smyth and Paul Adams, a pair of Goths, have done. It is against the law to be...

The Channel Tunnel - also know as the "Chunnel" - opened in 1994 and links Britain to the Continent of European for the first time since the last ice age. Whenever our workshy French neighbours go on strike (which happens around 100 times a year), French lorry drivers have an annoying habit of...