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Cities and other places
What makes a city, a town or a hamlet beautiful or a great place to live? For many of us, it’s what you ...
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Do we never learn?
Somehow or other the world seems to be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire then putting more coals on themselves. ...
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Oscars wild!
This year the Oscars, the Academy Awards, given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for artistic and technical merit in ...
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Twitter under one
So there it is. One of the largest social media platforms is now under the ownership of one middle aged white man for ...
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The elusive nature of truth
As I write many of us are watching the Ukraine war. Reports are fast flowing, to some extent live so that we sometimes ...
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What goes around comes around
It is April as I write. On the first day of this month is April Fools’ Day. We play pranks, have them played ...
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A Necessary Evil?
Animal testing is not all bad. But much of it is not necessary, either. Here’s what you need to know. Animal testing is ...
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Oh look, another one!
Many of us spend a lot of time using social media, with no real purpose or outcome. That is not to say it ...
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1914 Revisited?
The world that went to war in 1914 was rich following several decades of peace. International commerce was at its zenith as raw ...
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EUkraine?
Why are Ukraine and Ukrainians received so much more warmly than other wartorn places? Volodymir Zelenskiy is understandably keen to shelter under the ...
