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Khaled Diab of Al Jazeera comments as follows: “It’s not just the news that is depressing these days; so too is the state of the global media. Everywhere you look, the press is under assault from repressive regimes, terrorists and corporate interests. Freedom House’s latest report found global media freedom was at its lowest level …
Back home from Africa…… My wife asked for some brown bread at lunch in a restaurant in Namibia, a country ruled by South Africa until 1990. Our guide explained to her that until 1990 no white person would ever ask for brown bread, which had grit in it and damaged teeth. They ate only white …
If you want to remember something, take some vigorous exercise – but not immediately. A new study has found that exercise boosts people’s powers of recall, provided they leave an interval of a few hours between absorbing the new information and heading to the gym. Professor Guillén Fernández, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, the …
My apologies for a two day break in posting. I will also not be posting for four further nights from Saturday. Normal posting will hopefully be resumed thereafter. Please give yourself a short break from this blog, but I will be delighted to welcome you back, approximately next Wednesday. ——————————————————————————————– Today’s post “This year, shootings …
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Some commentators think that British exit from the EU portends the beginning of the end of English as an international language. They see British influence declining precipitately, and even think that this is the moment when Esperanto will begin to grow as a preferred language. They point out that English is mainly a second language …
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