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Host a Ukrainian!

by Richard Pooley Our Ukrainians, Tanya and her 15-year old son, Daniel, have been in our house in Bath, UK, since 13 June. I was told...

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The Men Who Knew Everything

“But Vincent, you know everything”. My colleague was taken aback to find there was indeed a serious gap in my collection of mental trivia.

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Up with Capitalism! Up with Regulation of Capitalism!

Firstly, the premise that lots of people believe that “capitalism has failed” must be questioned. Of course, there are people in bars...

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Oh No! – Not Another Pandemic!

Crab-eating or long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) at the Angkor Wat temple complex, Cambodia. Monkeypox was first...

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“A Soft Answer turneth away Wrath.”

I’d been teaching English in Milan. Two colleagues, Gary and Andrew, driving home to UK for Christmas, invite me to join them.

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