For days I was wrestling with a recalcitrant email system. Emails refused to depart from my computer, and I could find no one who understood even how the system works, let alone correct it. I paid a silly amount to someone purporting to be an expert, but it turned out he wasn’t . So let …
“In Britain and the US a deep crisis of conservatism has been building since the end of the Reagan and Thatcher governments. It is a crisis of competence, of intellectual energy and coherence, of electoral effectiveness, and – perhaps most serious of all – of social relevance.”. (The Guardian, 28 May 2019). If this is …
My wife and I went mackerel fishing off the coast of Dorset, in Southern England. There were about 15 people on the boat, the weather was glorious and the catch quite good, enough for everyone. We had fresh, baked mackerel for dinner that evening, caught on the end of a line. I got talking to …
Hundreds of thousands of older people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s may, in fact, be suffering from a different disease. According to new research, the condition, known as Late, affects a fifth of people over 85. Like Alzheimer’s, Late leads to memory loss, cognitive decline and mood disorders (although its progress tends to …
I did it all myself. For sure, I did it all myself. I never used networks or old college friends On whom the success of so many depends. I went out to work at the age of eighteen Thin as a rake, but determined and lean, And I laid rows of bricks and mixed tons …
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