Away in a manger, no crib for a bed. ‘Cause Pontius Cameron had kicked them out and put Mary and Joseph on workfare. “‘Tis good. ‘Tis the Lord’s work,” saith Liam Byrne and took all the flak for what the Romans did hoping to get himself a little governorship somewhere nearer Rome. And so it […]
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Was it something I said? When a friend received a tea-tasting invitation from the East India Company, based in one of the swankier streets of London’s West End, we did indeed do a double-take. But, hey, a tea tasting? I’ve never been to one of those, so last night off we trundled in the spirit
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Look. Let’s get this straight. Amy Chua is nuts. In China her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is called U.S. Mom because her maternal oddities are regarded as symptomatic of a western spiritual and psychic malaise. That her neuroses are being marketed as typical of the Chinese people as a whole (as if
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I’m just a girl who can’t say no. No, not a popular breakaway hit from the musical Oklahoma, but a dawning realisation that I like to indulge. Which can lead to a peculiar leftist angst as my ascetic consideration for the planet and the holy temple of my bod does battle with my inner gannet.
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Ah, the wit and wisdom of Ozzy Osbourne, clown prince of rock ‘n’ roll but a breath of fresh air among the creepier psychofrantic wing of the liberal media. While some present Blair as a sincere chap who, f’rinstance, donated his £4 million book advance to the British Legion out of the goodness of his
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If the Age of Enlightenment was about proving certainties, we’re entering the time of unravelment when everything falls apart. Talk about the centre not holding! My cinematic popcorn experience has been more interesting of late than for ages. We may no longer have the agitprop output of the post-World War II cultural boom, but serious
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