Time for the British to Revise their Perceptions of Doctors and Vets
There are still plenty of ‘old schoolers’ who believe that both doctors and vets, like clergymen, are following a vocation. Apart from...
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Richard Pooley
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As Others See Us...and History
In “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”, one of Robert Burns’ most amusing yet profound poems, written in 1786, the...
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Stoker
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King’s Lynn and the Meaning of Nowhere
We must begin with abject apologies to Jan Morris; that great writer, doyenne of travellers, and Celtic poet, whose book title we have...
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Eric Boa
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A Reckless Guide to Reckless Travel
We live in an age of golden travel. Never has it been so easy to go so far and wide. Yet moving around also has limitations, bounded by...
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Denis Lyons
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British Paradox
Bravo, Vincent! The United States of America’s self-inflated bubble of arrogance, stupidity and self-indulgence deserves to be punctured ...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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Ability & Disability among Musicians
Sit yourself down in a chair. Bend your left leg over your right. While keeping your back straight, scratch the end of your nose with...
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Richard Pooley
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Why does it have to be original?
“Is it original?” the member of the film crew asked me.
“Yes. It’s a letter he wrote to his mother. One of about a thousand that...
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Vincent Guy
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Funny Money
The Isles of Yap lie in the Mid Pacific, some 800 miles East of the Philippines. If both name and location suggest something out of...
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Lynda Goetz
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Will this madness ever end?
Every week there are yet more examples of a country, or indeed a world, which seems increasingly insane. Clearly, this is not the first...
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Richard Pooley
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Breaking the Glass and Class Ceilings
“I didn’t think you were the type.”
Zu Henry, our neighbour in Bath, was looking through the passenger window of our car and addressing me.
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