Saint Helena

Judge of the Day: Michael Edwards

Many '08 law school grads are about to take a step up to second year associate level at Biglaw firms across the land. You're feeling pretty proud? And lucky to have a Biglaw gig these days, right? Well, eat your hearts out....

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St Helena remains cut off from world as Whitehall drops airport plan

Two centuries ago more than a thousand ships a year called in at St Helena, then one of the most vital maritime staging posts in the world. Today only one supply ship regularly sails into Jamestown, the capital of one of...

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Island fears

People on the remote island of St Helena have warned that unless Britain builds them an airport soon, their economy will collapse. In May 1659, Captain John Dutton landed on St Helena, a speck of volcanic rubble more than a...

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