Origins of English phrases

There is an old Hotel / Pub in Marble Arch, London which used to have gallows adjacent.    Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung.    The horse drawn dray, carting the prisoner was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop […]

Nobody is winning in Syria

 RASHEED ABOU-ALSAMH Published — Sunday 20 April 2014 A series of recent interviews given by Syrian authorities to foreign journalists visiting Damascus at the invitation of the government, have given the erroneous impression that the forces of President Bashar Assad are winning the civil war, which entered its fourth […]