Game, Set, and Match
by Stoker Last month we refused to predict the winner of the American Presidential election, and the reader, looking between the lines,...
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Richard Pooley
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Just say Yes.
Three years ago my wife’s step-father needed to have 24-hour care in the Cotswolds cottage where he and my mother-in-law lived. However...
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Eric Boa
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What’s for dinner: sweet or Irish?
If you choose sweet, you’ll be eating Ipomea batatas. A similarly shaped but different tasting vegetable to Solanum tuberosum, the common...
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Lynda Goetz
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Patriotism is not Far-Right Racism
My Only Connect colleague Michael Carberry and I have never met. I’m sure that were we to do so we would find we had lots in common...
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Vincent Guy
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My Tour of Babel
The first language I gave up on was my mother tongue, or rather my mother’s tongue: German. I’m 4 years old riding in the back of a...
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Richard Pooley
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What’s the use of an agent?
Why do so many authors, artists, musicians, actors, sportspeople and entertainers of all kinds have agents to represent them? Why don’t...
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Stoker
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The Final Furlong
A long time ago, and in another place (alright, it was up to a few weeks ago and in the now sadly defunct Shaw Sheet magazine) I was...
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Tina Moskal
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Mustafa Said in Edinburgh
The Hub’s African look is down for this Arabic event, speckled with filters recalling the silhouetted fretwork of Oriental screens...
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Richard Pooley
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A cry of anger from the back of beyond
The death last month of Shaw Sheet, the magazine I used to write for, made me review some of the 89 articles I contributed to it. One...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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መልካም አዲስ ዓመት[1] Happy New Year 2017
I am writing this on the first day of 2017 in the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar. In the Western calendar it is September 11, a day that...
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