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How pathetic! Have you no empathy?
“Pathetic!” said my step father-in-law a couple of years ago. He’d just heard that my son had found his new girlfriend via Tinder...
Richard Pooley
4 min read
Managing Digital Nomads: You gotta trust ‘em
“You could buy a shoe box in Mayfair...” Such was the strapline of an advertisement by ‘Locate Guernsey’ in the House & Home section...
Richard Pooley
6 min read
“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.
Vincent Guy
6 min read
“Burn My Love Letters!”
Jane, my recently-widowed 95-year old mother-in-law didn’t say exactly “Burn my love letters!”. But close enough...
Richard Pooley
5 min read
On the Politics of Language
George Bernard Shaw once wrote that England and the USA were “two countries divided by a common tongue”. But what happens when one...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
6 min read
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