Chomsky and Conspiracy Theories
November 21, 2009
"Denial" is an overused word, but in its original context it is essential for understanding how the heirs of mass murderers keep going. Why
Bar Embraces Change
November 20, 2009
The Bar Standards Board, which regulates 14,000 barristers in England and Wales, gave its approval last night to fundamental changes in barristers' working practices.
An Ill Wind
November 19, 2009
I'd rather have a meatier, hotter and smellier world then give up beefy pleasures in order to reduce cow flatulence
Tragedy of a Modest Master
November 19, 2009
A world championship match, held 100 years ago next month, may have been partly responsible for the loser's death
Conversation Stopper
November 19, 2009
Zoffany, 'the one-eyed German', was one of many masters of a very British sub-genre
Eliot versus Hardy
November 19, 2009
Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot are the two greatest 20th-century poets in the English language, despite what they may have thought of one another.
This is England
November 19, 2009
‘England is perceived by my Continental friends as being a country that is all about belonging or not belonging’
Montana: Home From Home on the Range
November 19, 2009
‘I look around the dimly-lit bar and notice how the hard-drinking clientele watches suspicious newcomers like me, with my British-tainted accent and far too