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W C Fields told us that ‘anyone who hates dogs and kids can’t be all bad.’ He clearly knew nothing about how very useful they can be in maki...

It ’ s desperately unfair to suggest that the top echelons of the British Conservative Party are inhabited exclusively by figures who make D...

Nothing could make me regret the end of the Cold War. Even so there are iconic images from that time that remain burned into the imaginati...

Words don’t mean just one thing. They cover an area of meaning, and the meaning is less and less closely associated with the word as you get...

Signs can be so significant, can’t they? A hospital I visited recently has a café area in which there stands a quarter-grand piano. And on...

The secret of success is preparation, preparation and meticulous preparation. Different companies have different ways of celebrating Chris...

Don’t you just love those expressions which mean something quite different from what they seem to suggest? I’m very fond of ‘I hear what y...