In the autumn of 1984, a friend and I attended a meeting in support of striking miners. It was addressed by Kim Howells, later a Labour MP but then an official of the National Union of Mineworkers ...

In 2008, Peter Bellerby wanted to give his father a globe for his eightieth birthday. What seemed a simple enough task set off an almost obsessive, decade-long journey, marked by a litany of mishaps ...