There is far more sponsorship and funding available now, albeit a fraction of what swills around the men’s game.

The year 1215 marked a turning point in English constitutional history.

We see Europe from an economic point of view. Germans, on the other hand, have a much broader, culturally and historically rooted agenda.

The SNP’s almost total victory in Scotland should mean that more devolution of power will come their way, which will raise issues of legitimacy for any government formed in England.

The overall picture is that Britain continues to rely heavily on imported manufactured goods with an economy far too wedded to households retaining trade and credit.

With Henry’s words of regret in mind, it can plausibly be argued that the irrational decision to execute Cromwell was the direct result of his failing physical and mental capacities.

Cromwell urged the king to declare himself Head of the English Church, critically persuading Parliament to support his marriage to Anne Boleyn.

The reporting of the pogrom caused international outrage and condemnation of the Tsarist autocratic government,

It is a common fallacy that rival religious faiths are the prime cause of global conflict.

All this is likely to be good news for retail consumers in the west in run-up to Christmas.