If you believe The Daily Mail, we're all convinced that the world is going to end on 21st December 2012. Apparently people are stockpiling food
'Turkish village becomes latest doomsday hotspot', ran one headline last week. This is the news that 60,000 people are descending on a small Turkish village, where it is thought the Virgin Mary ascended to heaven:
It is clear that Lord Justice Leveson knows his history; more interesting, in many ways, is the way that he is prepared to use it
The popular myth of the Borgia family involves poison, incest, orgies and general tyranny. But beyond the Showtime version, how many of the tales are true? And if they aren’t true, where do they come