In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.

Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.

This is our crown jewel. It's the community's building.

Prudential will be the third jewel of the insurance crown.

Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.