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“But Vincent, you know everything”. My colleague was taken aback to find there was indeed a serious gap in my collection of mental trivia.

Firstly, the premise that lots of people believe that “capitalism has failed” must be questioned. Of course, there are people in bars...

Crab-eating or long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) at the Angkor Wat temple complex, Cambodia. Monkeypox was first...

I’d been teaching English in Milan. Two colleagues, Gary and Andrew, driving home to UK for Christmas, invite me to join them.

Walk into any bar - anywhere in the world probably, but certainly from personal and friends’ experiences, in Britain, New York,

On 11th May, a momentous event took place in Palestine on the outskirts of the Jenin Camp. I refer to the cold-blooded killing of a...

Jane, my recently-widowed 95-year old mother-in-law didn’t say exactly “Burn my love letters!”. But close enough...

George Bernard Shaw once wrote that England and the USA were “two countries divided by a common tongue”. But what happens when one...

From 1970 to 1971 I was a volunteer teacher in Botswana, eager to visit other countries. At the end of the first term I headed off with...

“Your custom is important to us” the disembodied voice tells you as you’re left hanging on the phone indefinitely...