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Stoker’s desk overlooks what would be a typically English rural, sylvan view.  It would be, were it not for the electricity and telephone...

Tidying my study is something of a mammoth job.  Apart from my failure to file stuff as it comes in, there is the added problem of my...

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

The blood was all over the back of my left hand. I was in the middle of delivering leaflets on behalf of the Liberal Democrats’...

The editorial command* is that we must cheer our readers up this month.  Crikey, as a much missed politician used to say: “Steady on...

What do Donald Trump’s runaway victories in the all the Republican Primary elections to date and the slaughter of over thirty thousand...

You may have heard of Heraklitos the philosopher who said “You can’t enter the same river twice”. This poem was a tribute by Kallimachos...

I read today that Rupert Murdoch is to be married for the fifth time. While I am not particularly interested in Murdoch, he is often...

There wasn’t the usual levity when I walked into my French village’s southern boulangerie early on Tuesday morning. The queue was quiet...

Any art dealer is going to regard me as hopelessly naïve and lacking in acumen but I would far rather have a beautiful painting by...