John Major

La Liga: Sid Lowe on Osasuna's dismal plight at the foot of the table

Camacho's call to arms draws blank at Osasuna, chumps of Europe While Barça and Real Madrid plunder goals at will, spare a thought for goal-shy Osasuna, whose combative new manager has yet to effect much-needed improvement...

Long wait for Bloody Sunday report: BBC (Nov 7) - John Thorne

Soldiers shot 13 people dead in Derry on Bloody Sunday The report of the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday has been delayed until the autumn of 2009, causing huge disappointment to relatives. January 30 1972 - forever Bloody...

New veterans march down Whitehall on 90th Remembrance Sunday

They followed the old formularies yesterday, as they do every year on Remembrance Sunday: prayers, hymns and the old marching tunes, although this year has a special resonance as tomorrow is the 90th anniversary of the end of...

Brown drowns but Tories are all at sea

Can you believe that? If so, with the Conservatives virtually mute on the world’s worst economic crisis, Labour really is finished. Yet as jobs and homes start sinking, it is Gordon Brown who looks like a real skipper, with...

The Queen leads the nation in Remembrance Sunday ceremony

The Queen has led the nation in acknowledging the ultimate sacrifice made by Britain's war dead at the Remembrance Sunday ceremony. The Queen leads nation in Remembrance Sunday ceremony Photo: AFP Prince William (Centre) and...

Remembrances of the war to end all wars

It was the war to end all wars and of course it did nothing of the kind. Ninety years on from the armistice that ended the First World War the most catastrophic conflict to befall Britain the nation honoured its military dead...

Queen leads nation in remembrance

The Queen led the nation in commemorating Britain's war dead on Remembrance Sunday. The monarch led the traditional two minutes silence at the ceremony in central London, before trumpeters played The Last Post. Commemorative...

Some statistics from the General Election

Voter turnout on Saturday was 78·69 per cent, according to the Chief Electoral Officer. Unlike Australia, voting is not compulsory, and the figure is roughly what we have had in the past. Apparently, there are still 240,000...

Remembrance Sunday 90 Years On, New Veterans Keep Coming

They followed the old formularies yesterday, as they do every year on Remembrance Sunday: prayers, hymns and the old marching tunes, although this year has a special resonance as tomorrow is the 90th anniversary of the end of...

A plan they say

If you are looking and listening, everyone has some plan laid out for Obama. Even before the current catastrophic economic downfall, the circumstances were far more daunting than for any previous president, upon having been...