After narrowly avoiding my unpleasant swim in the ice-cold Firth, I returned to my spot in that cleft in the rock.

BBC: Camping on the Canadian tundra

Others preferred the old arrangement, devised for the cold war, under which America promised to defend Japan (avoiding the need for Japan to play a bigger military role of its own) in return for the right to station American troops there to ward off Soviet aggression.

ECONOMIST: A sense of security