The many faces of dr mabuse

The Daily Sport ran an article about me once. They sent me a mock-up before it went to press, and I had two notes of crucial feedback. Firstly, the headline read: “Possessed by Demons… we all have a f

While the word dinosaur stems from the Greek for ‘terrible lizard’, dinosaurs aren’t lizards. This distinction is based on anatomical features, notably the legs. A lizard’s legs stick out at right ang

For nine days the heroic 1st Airborne fought desperately, waiting vainly for relief that never came

THE MOST DOMINANT FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE IS ALSO ITS MOST MYSTERIOUS AND MOST UNANTICIPATED

When I think about challenging family history problems – those knotty “brick walls” that have defied our attempts to solve them for months or perhaps years – I think about two basic divisions of genea

Alice Diamond’s shoplifting gang descended on London’s West End stores “like a plague of locusts” – and made themselves a fortune While the Peaky Blinders, Brigton Billy Boys and Charles Sabini’s mob