The rise and fall of an undervalued institution

‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

This month sees the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s death. One of the most influential and pioneering musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries. This intelligent, articulate, witty, endearingly ecce

Readers of Fortean Times will know that I have written regularly about real-life experiences of road ghosts, phantom hitchhikers and other apparitions. However, I also come across people who have had

LESTER COHEN / GETTY Lazarus: The Second Coming ...

THE SETTING IS 1983. A year after Britain won the Falklands War, an emboldened Tory government swept to power with the biggest political majority since 1945. With Margaret Thatcher at the helm in the