Stephen Beard, the grandson of Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, is currently campaigning for his grandmother to be posthumously pardoned and hopes that this drama will have the same ...

The white man in China last week was King Canute uneasy on his little throne, the foreign concessions, defying the tide of Chinese Nationalism not to engulf him. Throughout Europe disgruntled ...

Ed Miliband, the UK's current Energy Secretary, is swiftly cementing his place in history as the modern-day embodiment of King Canute. The legendary tale of Canute, who showed his inability to ...

LIKE medieval King Canute’s unsuccessful attempt to command the incoming tide to stop, central banks’ attempts to push back against swelling interest rate cut bets seem forlorn. But like the ...

A king, or a president, can have no effect on global warming and other examples of climate change by commanding the atmosphere and the oceans to stop heating up. The laws of chemistry, and of ...