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Last month, on 29 November, the British House of Commons, the lower house of the UK Parliament, passed a Private Members Bill* put...

by Stoker   Last month we refused to predict the winner of the American Presidential election, and the reader, looking between the lines,...

Three years ago my wife’s step-father needed to have 24-hour care in the Cotswolds cottage where he and my mother-in-law lived. However...

If you choose sweet, you’ll be eating Ipomea batatas. A similarly shaped but different tasting vegetable to Solanum tuberosum, the common...

My Only Connect colleague Michael Carberry and I have never met. I’m sure that were we to do so we would find we had lots in common...

The first language I gave up on was my mother tongue, or rather my mother’s tongue: German. I’m 4 years old riding in the back of a...

Why do so many authors, artists, musicians, actors, sportspeople and entertainers of all kinds have agents to represent them? Why don’t...

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)  I was...

The Hub’s African look is down for this Arabic event, speckled with filters recalling the silhouetted fretwork of Oriental screens...

The death last month of Shaw Sheet, the magazine I used to write for, made me review some of the 89 articles I contributed to it. One...