Hustler President Elected in Kenya
A while ago I rang a friend in Mombasa to find she was at a political rally for one of the presidential candidates in our recent election...
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Sabrina Humphrey
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The Black Sea to Amsterdam – a cruise through central Europe (part 2)
We arrived in Germany after going through the U-bend of the Schloegener Schlinge, with pretty villages at the water's edge...
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Vincent Guy
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How I started and stopped being a theatre director: Part 2
After a few years in the provinces, I was again struggling round London’s theatrical foothills, doing some work in the drama schools...
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Stoker
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Scottish Island Life – The Way Forward?
There is a common view of what goes on in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and it is perhaps epitomised in this photograph...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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Last Tango in Tanga Plunting in African mountains.
I recently returned from two plant hunting (what we call “plunting”) trips in East Africa. The first was on Mt. Kenya...
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Richard Pooley
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Save Energy, Beat Putin. We Brits need to be more stoical
The UK’s previous prime minister, Boris Johnson, had this to say on his most recent visit to Kyiv: “While [the British] people are paying...
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Michael Carberry
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Small government and low taxes will harm society, not heal it ... or feed it
As expected, Liz Truss has now come out top in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the British Conservative Party...
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Sabrina Humphrey
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The Black Sea to Amsterdam – a cruise through central Europe (part 1)
Earlier this summer my husband, Marcus, and I, together with two friends, finally set off on a Covid-postponed cruise, flying to...
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Stoker
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Letter to the Editor - Governments should pay for health care but not provide it
In ancient times, Editors would firmly cease fisticuffs in their august columns by declaiming: "This correspondence will now cease".
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Lynda Goetz
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Our Relationship with Death: What the Archie case tells us
The accident suffered by the British 12-year-old boy, Archie Battersbee, on 7 April at his home in Southend, England...
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