Mick O'Hare
23 February 2022
Goya and the grandad: The art theft that gripped Britain
How the battle over free TV licences for pensioners led to a daring heist in 1961 by an OAP. Possibly...
Read the full article14 February 2022
Imperial Idiocy: Could ‘Brexit opportunities’ include turning our back on the metric system?
The madness of bringing back measurements no-one understands and most of the world does not use
Read the full article10 February 2022
The forbidden game: Why there’s a French team with a name that evokes Spain in English rugby league
Catalans Dragons return to action with their eyes on going one step further than last season
Read the full article07 October 2021
The strange story of the European flag
For many, it inspires cooperation and hope... for others annoyance. But what does the European flag actually stand for?
Read the full article26 August 2021
The Disaster of Annual: The battle that still haunts Spain
Amid the bloodshed of the 20th century, it remains all but forgotten. But what became known as the Disaster of Annual, 100 years ago this summer, shaped Spain’s traumatic century.
Read the full article27 July 2021
When cold war broke out in the Olympic swimming pool
Looking back at one of the most notorious episodes in the Games' history, when sport and politics combined in ferocious violence
Read the full article10 July 2021
The war tour: When the British Lions got a lift from the Royal Navy
19 December 2020
The race to the North Pole and a controversy that has yet to thaw
13 June 2020
When football fell foul of politics – the strange story of the 1960 Euros
12 February 2020
The European: A newspaper from the past that still reflects present day problems
05 October 2019
35 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall
Those caught up in the momentous events of the fall of the Berlin Wall recall its demise 35 years later
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