She went to the US in the 1930s, because she was worried about sharecroppers; to Vienna in 1934 when the Nazi-era storm clouds gathered, and she smuggled letters from endangered people to Switzerland in her knickers.- Guardian. There is a part of us that asks: “How on earth do they do that?” And there is [...]

In fact, historians believe the Reformation was far more about the King’s determination to seize political power back from Rome. More recently there has been much sound and fury about whether Prince Charles could become King – and Supreme Governor of the Anglican church – if he married Camilla Parker Bowles, a divorcee. But the [...]

But there are moments when you almost see little stickers marked “clue” or “next victim”, and some of the mob-cop dialogue would make old Ironside writhe in his wheelchair.Bird then heads for New Orleans in search of a new lead on the elusive Travelling Man, the serial mutilationist responsible for the murder of Bird’s family. [...]

“The danger of disestablishment is that it will lead to a completely secular state, and I don’t actually think that’s what people want,” he says “But there is scope for some changes. The established church may still be there as a religious reference to the nation, but it has to operate in different ways.”After centuries [...]

She is famously prolific and already has more than 30 volumes to her credit, many of them best- sellers like Raw Energy and Ageless Ageing, but her latest book, Journey to Freedom, is rather different. Subtitled “13 quantum leaps for the soul”, it is a practical course in shamanism – a detox for the mind [...]

When, in 1926, the obviously eccentric WJ Bassett-Lowke dropped Charles Rennie Mackintosh as his builder of choice and commissioned the German Deutsche Werkbund architect Peter Behrens to design him a Modernist house (brazenly called New Ways) in Northamptonshire instead, people simply assumed that Bassett-Lowke had gone mad. A year later, Waugh lampooned Behrens in Decline [...]

Go for a fund that performs well in its sector year in and year out.”If you are new to PEP investing, you may want to concentrate on the larger groups such as Fidelity, Perpetual, M&G, Schroder, and HSBC. They will continue as active PEP managers long after PEPs have been replaced by individual savings accounts [...]

It guarantees that your investment can only fall by 5 per cent a year.The downside to these funds is that you will not get the benefit of a full rise in the stock market. The managers cream off some of the returns in order to make money on the fund and pay for the options [...]

The latest in our regular series on the fortunes of the Reservoir Dogs share club, a group of London friends who pool cash and try to buy fast-growing shares This month: fortune favours the bold. THE START of 1999 certainly has been a corker for the club. Our six- month review this January showed the [...]

But we have tried to make it as straightforward as possible and useful for everyone from experienced investors to those who aren’t sure what a personal equity plan is (but think they ought to have one).
This survey will get you started on the search for a good PEP buy. “It could be that by 2020 [...]