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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...

Stoker seems to have developed a minor obsession with water works; the Editor thinks it’s a sign of the passing years. More though...

In 1973 I was one of group of aspiring British diplomats undergoing the Foreign Office selection process.  For one exercise we were...

My training to become a research scientist was lengthy, frustrating and absorbing. The future after getting my PhD in 1981 was uncertain...

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...

“Not again! What’s the fascination with African wildlife? You can see it all in Attenborough’s documentaries.” Such was the reaction...

This little story starts with me waiting nervously in the anteroom of a Magistrates Court in Brighton in 1975, not because of any crime,

Kate Simpson, a rising star at MI6 and thrilled to be back in London after her Moscow posting, studies James Oliphant, the improbably...

This line from ‘Beyond the Fringe’, the satirical show of 1960, makes fun of the idea that carrots might be useful for improving...

Roedean, the prestigious private girls’ school in Brighton, announced recently that it is holding lessons on issues which will affect its...