Vincent Guy6 minA Diet a Day This line from ‘Beyond the Fringe’, the satirical show of 1960, makes fun of the idea that carrots might be useful for improving...
Lynda Goetz5 minWhat 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 Goetz7 minTime for the British to Revise their Perceptions of Doctors and VetsThere are still plenty of ‘old schoolers’ who believe that both doctors and vets, like clergymen, are following a vocation. Apart from...
Richard Pooley8 minAs Others See Us...and HistoryIn “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...
Stoker6 minKing’s Lynn and the Meaning of Nowhere We must begin with abject apologies to Jan Morris; that great writer, doyenne of travellers, and Celtic poet, whose book title we have...
Eric Boa6 minA Reckless Guide to Reckless TravelWe 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...
Denis Lyons9 minBritish ParadoxBravo, Vincent! The United States of America’s self-inflated bubble of arrogance, stupidity and self-indulgence deserves to be punctured ...
Dr. Mark Nicholson6 minAbility & Disability among MusiciansSit yourself down in a chair. Bend your left leg over your right. While keeping your back straight, scratch the end of your nose with...
Richard Pooley6 minWhy does it have to be original?“Is it original?” the member of the film crew asked me. “Yes. It’s a letter he wrote to his mother. One of about a thousand that...
Vincent Guy7 minFunny MoneyThe Isles of Yap lie in the Mid Pacific, some 800 miles East of the Philippines. If both name and location suggest something out of...