He believed too much was spent on administration and not enough on frontline capability.Mr Rifkind then surprised civil servants by placing Mr Hart in charge of the privatisation of MoD housing stock.. When Mrs Thatcher fell from power, Mr Hart transferred his attentions to three friends in the senior ranks of the party, Michael Portillo, [...]

But for a mere terrestrial, it was good enough reason to wait patiently for admission to see Wang Changting, chairman of the committee of directors of the China UFO Research Society. Such weaponry would have been of little use against the woman from Jupiter, who recently hijacked a Chinese farmer into her spaceship and repeatedly [...]

The Bank’s formal position is that it does not guarantee any bank.IBCA gives a four rating to banks such as Hambros, Robert Fleming, Kleinwort Benson, Schroder Wagg, Singer & Friedlander and Standard Chartered – names which, like Barings prior to its collapse, would not have been thought of by the public as risky places to [...]

On the edge of Bradford’s red-light district, in a dimly lit Indian restaurant, sit two scared prostitutes They shake, smoke and drink coffee. Sally and Fran have just been chased from their regular spot on Lumb Lane, north of the city centre, by a car of masked youths which hurtled towards them, almost knocking them [...]

Between New York, Zagreb and Sarajevo a tortuous compromise emerged.On 24 May, as a result, General Smith gave an ultimatum to both the Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim-led government to cease firing heavy weapons by noon on 25 May. He also ordered the Bosnian Serbs to return the seized weapons within the same deadline and [...]

What better start for any child?”7.25pm: two visitors in their twenties have been listening in the background. Ravi, aged four, who has never used a computer before, is transfixed. Stuart loads a CD-Rom, and after a couple of minutes, Ravi masters the mouse, and looks as if he should be doing the demonstrations.7pm: meet the [...]