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A breathless journalist on our local TV channel news was talking about the intruder who gained entry into the White House recently. In the course of her excited explanation she referred to a canine dog that patrols the grounds. A slip of the tongue? It got me thinking of other redundant pairings of words that …
When your child needs comforting, what do you do? Give them a kiss? A cuddle? Sit them on your knee? You probably assume that when they are upset at nursery, staff do the same. Not so. Evidence gathered from a day-nursery organisation suggests that many nurseries have introduced “no-touching” policies in response to public hysteria …
The number of U.S. families that struggled to get enough to eat last year was essentially unchanged from the year before, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest report on “food security”. The agency says that about 17.5 million families — or 1 in 7 — were food insecure last year. That means that …
The service industry is meant to be the “engine” of our economy, but it’s an engine that businesses seem eager to dispense with. They still charge you for service, but want you to do the work. The trend began with supermarkets, where self-service checkouts have become the norm. Now it has overtaken the airlines, as …
Yesterday I discussed this year’s graduation results of Merton College, Oxford. Now I would like to look back at some historical figures and compare the results from another college (name witheld) in 1963 with those achieved this year: 1963 1st class: 7 2nd class 57 (2nds were not formally split into 2.1 and 2.2 until …
