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Our family has abandoned the practice of handing out Christmas presents between adults. After all, there’s something slightly tedious about ...

It always makes me smile when I see a writer using the word ‘arguably’.  I’ve done it myself, and I know what it means. ‘Arguably’ is a neat...

Our new home country, Spain, has reacted more sensibly than many to the Covid-19 pandemic. Broadly speaking. And for now. We do have some fr...

If you scratch me, do I not bleed?” asks Shylock, the Jew, in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Essentially, we are all the same, with much ...

There are intellectual giants that have left their mark on Western thought right down to the present day. When their ideas have had politica...

Something you can count on, with absolute confidence, is human stupidity. We all share it. I’m no more immune than anyone else, but fortunat...

Most languages about which I know anything seem to take their swearwords from two main areas of the human experience, the religious or the s...