With Britain heading into ... proclaiming “you never had it so good,” the austerity program was a humiliating admission of failure. In the stormy two-day Commons debate on his measures ...

Prince Philip had applied for British citizenship, but he was still technically of Greek nationality, although he had not been in that country since he was a year old. Britain was deeply involved ...

But it did remind me that the nostalgia so many older people feel for the 1950s and 60s has more to do with selective perception than with the reality of the good old days. Don’t get me wrong.