Coloured? "We are a culture, not a race."
What’s racist about discussing the likely colour of your grandchild’s or niece’s skin, if the unborn child be the product of the union...
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Stoker
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Flood Prevention v Nature Preservation - Slugging it out on the Lugg
Stoker seems to have developed a minor obsession with water works; the Editor thinks it’s a sign of the passing years. More though...
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Michael Carberry
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The Curse of Partition
In 1973 I was one of group of aspiring British diplomats undergoing the Foreign Office selection process. For one exercise we were...
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Eric Boa
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The hustle is on: me and Bill Gates
My training to become a research scientist was lengthy, frustrating and absorbing. The future after getting my PhD in 1981 was uncertain...
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Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
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The Palestinians Love Life … and all Creatures, Great and Small
Two months ago, my 8-year-old niece, who is living with us, looked up from her iPad and told me that she had received 2,000 views on a...
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Richard Pooley
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Save the Planet’s Wildlife… Fly Long-Haul
“Not again! What’s the fascination with African wildlife? You can see it all in Attenborough’s documentaries.” Such was the reaction...
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Jean-Luc Barbannneau
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Lost in the Labyrinth of Language
This little story starts with me waiting nervously in the anteroom of a Magistrates Court in Brighton in 1975, not because of any crime,
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Denis Lyons
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From Russia With Roubles
Kate Simpson, a rising star at MI6 and thrilled to be back in London after her Moscow posting, studies James Oliphant, the improbably...
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Vincent Guy
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A Diet a Day
This line from ‘Beyond the Fringe’, the satirical show of 1960, makes fun of the idea that carrots might be useful for improving...
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Lynda Goetz
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What should we teach our children?
Roedean, the prestigious private girls’ school in Brighton, announced recently that it is holding lessons on issues which will affect its...
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