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There are still plenty of ‘old schoolers’ who believe that both doctors and vets, like clergymen, are following a vocation. Apart from...

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...

We must begin with abject apologies to Jan Morris; that great writer, doyenne of travellers, and Celtic poet, whose book title we have...

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...

Bravo, Vincent! The United States of America’s self-inflated bubble of arrogance, stupidity and self-indulgence deserves to be punctured ...