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- Visa Woes and Wars
by Eric Boa From 1970 to 1971 I was a volunteer teacher in Botswana, eager to visit other countries. I smiled when a board appeared in the corridor saying that it would now take at least 15 days to process
- To A Coy Boardroom*
ministers have a terrible habit of not defending free enterprise but on retirement quietly taking the board
- Funny Money
by Vincent Guy Yap Currency Photo: Eric Guinther A Stone The Isles of Yap lie in the Mid Pacific It boasts a sign saying “Keep Clear.
- What divides Russia and China? “One of the most formidable rivers on Earth”
Robert Byron (not the poet but of his family), Peter Fleming, Jan Morris, Eric Newby, Freya Stark, Bruce
- Musical Muscles Part 2: Meetings with Genius
You know, of course, that she’s the muse of epic poetry.” “Not this time, but Mr.
- Hide those Power Lines .... or Destroy What We Love
My own grandfather fought a long battle to stop the Central Electricity Generating Board running the
- President Macron’s “mad” promise will be kept. Notre Dame will reopen by Christmas.
As one carpenter said: "We could easily cut the logs into boards [with a saw] but keeping the wood fibres
- Flood Prevention v Nature Preservation - Slugging it out on the Lugg
The vital local agencies are the drainage boards, mostly made up of local worthies with financial interests There is, of course, a regulator for river management, not local drainage boards as in the Fens, but Fallen trees should rot, feral boar can freely roam, hedges grow into spinneys into woods, and rivers
- Breaking the Glass and Class Ceilings
One of the four men in the Trinity boat had also rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and had Like me, the other three men in my boat had been to public schools - two to Radley and one to Eton*. When I was at Exeter University fifty years ago there was not a single woman in our boat club. The same boat club today has almost as many women members as men. Hardly any of these women had stepped into a rowing boat before they arrived at Exeter.
- Bring up the bodies
my age, the son of my mother’s doctor, had nipped over to Paris on BEA (which merged that month with BOAC As an investigator from the US National Transportation Safety Board said later, it takes body bags for
- The Wild Rover - 75 years old, but stuck in the mud?
of those corporate mess-ups brought about by an over-enthusiastic PR department, bounced through the board
- The Changing Face of Britain
When his elder brothers first came to London one still saw notices in boarding house windows saying “