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The British generation now drawing its old age pensions differs markedly in at least one respect from Generation X or Z or Q, or whatever now supports the Green Party. Us oldies spent most of our young lives smelling of slightly stale tobacco, with ash trays (occasionally even emptied) in every room of the house, and at every opportunity, flicking lighters for a quick draw. And there were plenty of opportunities: in the lecture hall, on buses and trains, in aircraft (later,

There are currently a whole host of things to write about. I considered a number of them for my contribution to this month’s Only Connect. Should I write about the worrying rise of anti-Semitism; the attempts by the Labour government to bring in a blasphemy law by the backdoor with their committee discussing a definition of Islamophobia; David Lammy’s proposals to do away with jury trials for any offence for which the maximum jail time is less than three years; the concomitan

Last month, on 29 November, the British House of Commons, the lower house of the UK Parliament, passed a Private Members Bill* put...

London, 13 May 2024 - The Prime Minister today announced the sale of Britain’s National Health Service to the American healthcare giant...

Nobody makes films about dentists. So said a friend commenting on the dramatic potential of dental care. Marathon Man, a film starring...