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“Trust a snake before a harlot and a harlot before a Pathan.” Hindu proverb quoted by Rudyard Kipling in Kim.Had the current rulers of the US and EU nations studied history they would have discovered that the British were summarily kicked out of Afghanisatn twice and the Russians once and rather recently. Alexander the Great …
Have you noticed that one wine is starting to taste like the next one, or is it the fault of my taste buds? The Australian wine “engineers” have been at it for years now, making acceptable sipping wines with the latest technology, but in doing so making wine homogenized and with less and less individual …
I’ve been reading a review of a book by Iain Sinclair, called London, City of Disappearances, a collection of the regrets and recollections by some sixty-odd contributors. They talk about long-gone people, bookshops, locations, urban myths and memories. But one huge, vanishing aspect to this swarming beehive of a city, and one that pains me, …
Instead of popping vitamin and food supplement pills (some have nasty stuff in them, others give you an overdose of some vitamins), what we ought to be doing is protesting against fruit, vegetables and processed foods with minimal nutritional value.
What idiot thought of bringing frankincense and myrrh? They sent the wrong wise men, who picked the wrong presents. What the Arabs did was very clever. They got the perfume from Araby and India at a knock-down price, adulterated it, and sold it to the Franks (alias, the Christians) at ten times the price. The …
