31 October 2010
Simon Cowell's £165m: is it enough?
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Discussing the rivalry of two people called Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller, today's Mail on Sunday Review quotes someone as saying: ‘T...
27 October 2010
Lucid dreams: watching others get the benefit
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copy of a letter to a journalist When you came you asked me whether I regretted having written the first book on lucid dreams, and I should ...
22 October 2010
An appeal to Harvard
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I try to know as little as possible about what research or pseudo-research is being done in subjects in which I am being prevented from doin...
06 October 2010
A cottage with a view
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copy of a letter to a salaried academic Things go on here without getting any better, and without anyone ever responding to our appeals for...
30 September 2010
A strange remedy
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In a recent Daily Mail editorial , under the title ‘The cheats who give welfare a bad name’, there is a reference to the case of an elderly...
20 September 2010
Treacherous parents and a treacherous fund-raiser
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Further to this , here is another piece of history which my colleague Dr Charles McCreery has sent to the person who is planning to write a ...
11 September 2010
The retrospective pensions swindle
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I have a book entitled The Great Pensions Swindle * which, 40 years ago, made some useful points about the likely unreliability of state pen...
28 August 2010
A Registrar of Oxford and other deflating gas-bags
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This is an account of past events which my colleague Charles McCreery has written, and sent to someone who is planning to write a book about...
22 August 2010
Snatching winter fu-el
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The age at which the elderly can claim winter fuel payments, worth £250 last year for the over-60s and an extra £150 for those over 80, is a...
21 August 2010
The sacrifices of sadism are the greater
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It may be observed that General McCreery was prepared to spend a good deal of money (Eton fees for five years) to prevent Charles from being...
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