What strange compulsion inspires those who never faced danger on the field of battle to present themselves as bona fide heroes, their deceptions more often than not garnished with medals bought on eBay. Whatever the explanation, their numbers are legion

As a US battle group heads to area, the next war in Asia may be much closer than we care to imagine. With China's claim to a few barren shoals and tiny islands representing the flint, the iron resolve of neighbouring nations to resist being reduced to vassal states may well see the region set ablaze

It was my great misfortune to be marooned in the vest-pocket nation before chronic electrical-supply problems were fixed. Now that an abundance of electricity has brought even indoor skiing to the sweltering kingdom, I look back on an experience that only a carbon-phobic Greens voter might envy