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Below is the text of a letter of application to Oxford University recently sent with regard to a professorship in Education. Dear ... I am a...

The basic moral principle is that one should avoid imposing on other people one’s own interpretation of the existential situation, and overr...

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. (Professor Albert Bartlett) I do not...

Recent remarks by the Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow, express the warmest goodwill towards unpaid carers who help elderly relatives. B...

As has been pointed out, pensioners are fair game for anything because they constitute a population with an above-average IQ. At the start o...

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Andrew Lansley last night warned that NHS spending may have to rise for ever, simply to keep pace with rising life expectancy. The Health S...

notes on photos of my parents 1. My father missed getting a First by one mark. There was an easy explanation of a shortfall in his marks, bu...

My parents were great people (‘great’ in the old-fashioned sense) who had terrible lives. Like me, they were models of what the modern world...