Monday, 29 July 2013

Going round the bend while messing about in boats

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‘There's nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats,’ the Water Rat tells Mole in Kenneth...
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Friday, 26 July 2013

For your own safety, do try to avoid being black

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Intent on steadying young people, the Mikado of Japan decreed, according to Gilbert and Sullivan, ‘that all who flirted, leered or winked, (...
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Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Celebrating the arrival of a new Chief Rabbi. For the sake of argument.

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According to broadcaster Vanessa Feltz, ‘if you put a Jewish person on a desert island, that person will construct two synagogues, not one, ...
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Monday, 22 July 2013

It's a riot, an evening with the Irish. So why waste it rioting?

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I hate expressing a view which is tantamount to racist, but I can’t remember meeting anyone from Ireland who I haven’t liked. Whether they’...
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Friday, 19 July 2013

Bad arguments about healthcare: if you can't stop them, at least give as good as you get

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Marc de La Val had built an enviable reputation for complex cadio-thoracic operations on babies, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, the most ...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Auld acquaintance not forgot

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It’s always good to be reunited with an old and valued friend after a separation. The other day a box was delivered to my door. I was onl...
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Monday, 15 July 2013

A woman's achievement, a man's prize

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It’s a long way from a school where little girls are expected to study sewing and cookery, to a position as a leading woman scientist; it’s ...
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