* CJ Lang's David Walker may be an Englishman but he has a long-term commitment to Scotland. John Wood met him The English may be able to hammer the Scots at rugby, but when it comes to neighbourhood retailing north of the...

In 1989, a China Airlines flight, flying in zero visibility, crashed into the side of a mountain shortly after takeoff. On the voice recorder, the last words of the Chinese pilot to the co-pilot were, "What does pull up mean?" When I first...

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents Them, you're performing an act of distancing. And that if you dedicate that book "To Them with love and longing,"...

David Crystal talks about language danger with great fear of the possibilities that this global language will have a negative effect on itself and also on other languages which do not have all the power that English, being the global language has. He points out that English should not be the language spoken worldwide and therefore being the cause for the disappearance of other languages. The points Crystal talks about are of a big importance and with them, he is encouraging his readers to learn other langua