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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,
Jean-Luc Barbannneau
10 min read
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...
Denis Lyons
9 min read
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...
Lynda Goetz
5 min read
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...
Lynda Goetz
7 min read
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...
Richard Pooley
8 min read
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