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Watch Your Language!
Sensational headlines about the rising toxic tide of Americanisms inundating our defenceless language produce predictable, periodic...
Denis Lyons
12 min read
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Game, Set, and Match  Â
by Stoker  Last month we refused to predict the winner of the American Presidential election, and the reader, looking between the lines,...
Stoker
5 min read
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The Final Furlong
A long time ago, and in another place (alright, it was up to a few weeks ago and in the now sadly defunct Shaw Sheet magazine)Â I was...
Stoker
5 min read
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A Fundamental Problem: the unholy alliance between fundamentalist religion and extremist politics.
What do Donald Trump’s runaway victories in the all the Republican Primary elections to date and the slaughter of over thirty thousand...
Michael Carberry
9 min read
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Coloured? "We are a culture, not a race."
What’s racist about discussing the likely colour of your grandchild’s or niece’s skin, if the unborn child be the product of the union...
Richard Pooley
5 min read
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