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Moaning for good

I trust you enjoy the ambiguity of the title. Allow me, without delay, to adopt the optimistic version. Where timely moaning spares me...

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Give blood to give life

Many years ago, when I bumped into an uncle of mine in a bar in England, he called out, ‘fancy a pint?’. He...

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First World tough on GBV

Everyone reading this article must please raise the right hand if they have never struck a woman, and especially in a domestic context....

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Vanity in modernity

‘Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.’ Those were the sagacious (logophile vanity?) words of the famous writer, Jane...

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Our world never learns

The writer did, last week, offer the suggestion that the global population – or sufficient numbers to influence the rest – is never...

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Where are we now?

The reader is very welcome to respond to the question contained in the title. There are various media, especially a letter to the...

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Measuring happiness

Well, that makes for an easy start to the article today. Since you can’t measure happiness; unlike with height, weight, financial wealth and...

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Humour that never dies

However much you love your child, and the feeling being strongly reciprocated, there is always the ‘generation gap’. Nowhere in entertainment is the...

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Tough love is necessary

Tough love is generally where you have to be harsh to be kind. An apparent contradiction, but it can succeed in certain situations;...

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