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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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The Fossil finder and the Kingmaker
Two well-known and very different Kenyan characters died on the same day this month...
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Stoker
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Trump or Ghost of Trump? Who will it be in 2024?
What did Donald Trump read for his bedtime story on Christmas Eve? What he should have read...
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Tina Moskal
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My Most Unforgettable Teacher: Willie Traill and the Attic
My all-girls’ Edinburgh school in the Sixties was strung skew-whiff across three once-grand terraced houses, with their assorted staircases
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Kalliopi Venieri
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Musical Muscles Part 2: Meetings with Genius
Three geniuses have played lordly parts in my dancing career. Two of them I was lucky enough to meet in person...
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Tina Moskal
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The Delights and Decline of the OTT Teacher
A most joyous pastime at School in the 1960s was acting out the mannerisms of our extraordinarily quirky teachers for schoolmates to...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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Holidays and history lessons
Our two youngest flew into Nairobi last Saturday for their long summer holidays. They arrived at 0100h...
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Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
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"Take a Shufti" – A Journey in Words
It is now almost thirty-five years ago that I began my career in the field of training. I walked into Farnham Castle in Surrey...
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Stoker
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Joe and Kamala won’t do it next time
As Joe Biden shuffles towards the end of his first year in Presidential office he must be reflecting that things could have gone better...
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Lynda Goetz
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Brave New World?
I went skiing in the French Alps last week. Alright for some, I can hear you saying. Well, yes. There is no...
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Kalliopi Venieri
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Musical Muscles – part 1
Kalliopi Venieri made both a late and an early start as a professional dancer. She had her first ballet lesson at 11, some years...
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