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When my wife got home from work today, she announced with gusto that, “we’re going to have Kefir again! Remember? Like when we were first to...

Generals, it’s said, tend to fight the last war. As do admirals. Why, politicians too, and even their supporters. It’s true that admirals,...

Some decades ago, I was a lodger in a house owned by Jewish friends. They were perhaps slightly closer to the Jewish mainstream than I was, ...

Bristol, in the West of England, has a distinctive accent with, as a particular characteristic, a tendency to add an ‘l’ to words that end w...

George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer – the quaint British term for Finance Minister – who campaigned for Britain to stay in th...

The great thing about xenophobia is that it makes you feel so good. All you have to do is belong to the majority. In England, say, you jus...

They left me behind again the other day. Went out for the whole evening. And the worst of it was that, when they got back, number 2 smelled ...