South Africa has had few international heroes over the past fifty years. Nelson Mandela, Donald Woods, Steve Biko, Helen Suzman, Francois Piennar, and David Rattray, to name but a few.

Desperate news breaks today of the murder of Rattray, 48, shot by a Zulu gang last Friday in his home overlooking the battlefield at Isandlwana.

David Rattray was South Africa's pre-emininent historian. He had

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It's quite amazing how suddenly this week Gordon Brown has tried to cast himself as a Unionist, and has shrouded himself in the Union Flag.

Whilst most of us celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the Act of Union, an Act that made Britain truly great, noone has done more to destroy it than this Labour government.

The division of the United Kingdom into a series of regions in accordance with some model

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Birmingham used to have a real problem with homelessness. A walk along New Street at night would find groups of people, young and old alike, huddling in make-shift homes of cardboard boxes, the occasional second-hand sleeping bag, and the obligatory stray dog.

These were people forgotten by society, unloved by their family, and left without hope.

But that has now changed in large part due to

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