Nigel Calder News Today

Dear Editor: It is increasingly hard to believe that the appalling scale of civilian death in Gaza, and the wholesale destruction of homes, hospitals, and infrastructure, are anything other than intentional. We can, perhaps, understand it in terms...

Dear Editor: I emigrated to the U.S. in 1978 to take up a job as an oilfield mechanic and electrician in the Gulf of Mexico. Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister in the UK in 1979 and Ronald Reagan president in the U.S. in 1980. Both...

Dear Editor: I emigrated to the U.S. in 1978 to take up a job as an oilfield mechanic and electrician in the Gulf of Mexico. Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister in the UK in 1979 and Ronald Reagan president in the U.S. in 1980. Both...

Letter

Dear Editor: I was born in England in 1948. I married an American (this year is our 50th anniversary!) and emigrated to the USA in 1978. I am 76 years old. In all those years, in order to retain a job or anything else that was important or dear to...

Dear Editor: I was born in England in 1948. I married an American (this year is our 50th anniversary!) and emigrated to the USA in 1978. I am 76 years old. In all those years, in order to retain a job or anything else that was important or dear to...

Letter

I’d like to think I would refuse to support a blatant falsehood in order to hang onto something important, but history tells us I probably would not.

Towards Tomorrow: Robot: How close the human race is to Isaac Asimov's predicted future. Towards Tomorrow: Robot airs on BBC Four HD at 1:05 AM, Wednesday 27 December. How close the human race is to Isaac Asimov's predicted future

If you were running a store plagued by shoplifters and I told you the way to stop this is to fire the store detective, you’d think I was nuts. Would someone please tell me how the House Republican attempts to defund the Internal Revenue Service’s ability to go after wealthy tax cheats represents a deficit […]