The facts do NOT speak for themselves. We need a Data Singer.
You are, I’m sure, a better world citizen than me. As soon as you saw, on 9 August, the words “It is a code red for humanity”
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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The Second-Best Exotic Lunatic Line
By Mark Nicholson I took a train to Mombasa last week on the Chinese standard gauge railway (SGR, 1.435m) partly out of curiosity and...
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Lynda Goetz
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“May You Live in Interesting Times”
I have to confess that for me and my family, following a fairly busy series of lock-downs, this summer and certainly this last month...
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Vincent Guy
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A lesson for life – Thank you, Dr P.
By Vincent Guy Photo by Roger Mayne I can’t say I learned a lot at Oxford University, but I did get a lesson for life from Dr Zbigniew...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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South Africa - into the frying pan and into the fire
On July 11, I sent our two youngest girls back to school. At least I thought I did. Their journey as usual starts at 0100am
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Richard Pooley
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Why do the British litter? What can we learn from Japan and France?
One afternoon late last year I watched a young woman having a smoke on the pavement below my study window in Bath.
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Lynda Goetz
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Cowering from the Virus – It’s True, so Why Apologise?
‘Cower’: a useful and descriptive verb which aptly describes the response of a great many people...
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Michael Carberry
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Making a gesture – has the UK government got it wrong on “taking the knee”?
The on-line abuse of three young black footballers following the heroic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt of the England team...
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Stoker
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A Chuffing Liberty
Forget the pinging. Time to get chuffing. Summer in England has arrived at last (though it may have departed by the time you read this)...
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Richard Pooley
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Travelling Hopefully in the Time of Covid
I am abroad; out of the UK and in France. My wife and I escaped Bath and then London on Tuesday last week by train
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