The Palestinians Love Life … and all Creatures, Great and Small
Two months ago, my 8-year-old niece, who is living with us, looked up from her iPad and told me that she had received 2,000 views on a...
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Richard Pooley
- 6 min
Save the Planet’s Wildlife… Fly Long-Haul
“Not again! What’s the fascination with African wildlife? You can see it all in Attenborough’s documentaries.” Such was the reaction...
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Jean-Luc Barbannneau
- 10 min
Lost in the Labyrinth of Language
This little story starts with me waiting nervously in the anteroom of a Magistrates Court in Brighton in 1975, not because of any crime,
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Denis Lyons
- 9 min
From Russia With Roubles
Kate Simpson, a rising star at MI6 and thrilled to be back in London after her Moscow posting, studies James Oliphant, the improbably...
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Vincent Guy
- 6 min
A Diet a Day
This line from ‘Beyond the Fringe’, the satirical show of 1960, makes fun of the idea that carrots might be useful for improving...
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Lynda Goetz
- 5 min
What should we teach our children?
Roedean, the prestigious private girls’ school in Brighton, announced recently that it is holding lessons on issues which will affect its...
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Lynda Goetz
- 7 min
Time for the British to Revise their Perceptions of Doctors and Vets
There are still plenty of ‘old schoolers’ who believe that both doctors and vets, like clergymen, are following a vocation. Apart from...
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Richard Pooley
- 8 min
As Others See Us...and History
In “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”, one of Robert Burns’ most amusing yet profound poems, written in 1786, the...
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Stoker
- 6 min
King’s Lynn and the Meaning of Nowhere
We must begin with abject apologies to Jan Morris; that great writer, doyenne of travellers, and Celtic poet, whose book title we have...
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Eric Boa
- 6 min
A Reckless Guide to Reckless Travel
We live in an age of golden travel. Never has it been so easy to go so far and wide. Yet moving around also has limitations, bounded by...
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