My trip to Kabul in Afghanistan was nearly two months ago now. And the experience was all of three days, but managed to change my life’s perspective completely. Now, while driving each morning in the quiet of Glen Lyon I remember the chaos of the roads that I witnessed in that war-torn...

During the night of 1 September the contributor of these regular pieces died at his home in Sao Bras in the Highlands of the Algarve.  Brian Hilliard had been an Inspector with the Metropolitan police and was a former editor of the Police Review.   A regular visitor to Highland...