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The beheading of a young soldier in Woolwich is appalling, and seems all the more so for happening in open daylight in a suburban street in ...

Earlier tonight I replied to a correspondent whom I should like to call a friend but can’t really as I have never actually met him. He had e...

NB (Written May 31, 2014) Given some concerns expressed to me about the contents of a previous version of this entry, I would very much like...

Here’s a paradox: when you’re 10, 12, 13 or 15, you watch Doctor Who and it all makes perfect sense. Well, he’s a clever one! you think. The...

The trouble with surveys is that at one and the same time they can be enormously misleading, highly informative, hugely subjective and gener...

I don’t think I have self-esteem problems (but nor am I, I hope, conceited) but one ‘moral’ lesson I have tried to teach my children is that...

It is odd how thin-skinned those folk are who like to set themselves up as our conscience but do not necessarily get the universal acclaim t...

A short, rather ridiculous statement which the Guardian carried, but which I’m sure has appeared elsewhere (i.e. that I saw it in the Guardi...

Я, кажется, получаем много посетителей из России сегодня, таким образом я думал, что я мог бы поздороваться. Я не знаю то, что привлекает их...

This is something I cobbled together after a trip to Spain last year. I rather like it, but that doesn’t mean that you will. Suck it and...