Anyone who has read up on the history of World War I knows one thing first and foremost: life in the trenches carried with it an awful smell. But does that mean that we should defecate while wearing the poppy, and if we must are we to hold our nose? Did our war heroes die so as to secure us…
Whether you consider the John Lewis Christmas advert to be one of the most eagerly anticipated aspects of any calendar, never mind just the festive – the annual wintery short filling you up like a cup of creamy cocoa and just like your favourite pair of slippers, leaving your tingling toes all cosy and warm – or whether the whole thing…
Archaeologists continue to quarrel over the construction of the pyramids, and the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn has taken a million years to complete. But what conceit of engineering, or what tectonic shift, has robbed us of our humble Toblerone, bars of nougaty chocolate in triangular peaks? In fact neither the Alps nor the Egyptians dictated the shape of the Toblerone, the bar’s…
Up high, the flies are playing, And frolicking, and swaying. The frog thinks: Dance! I know You’ll end up here below. Es machen sich die Fliegen / Ein luftig Tanzvergnügen. / Der Frosch, der denkt: Nur munter! / Ihr kommt schon noch herunter! Circa 1870. Translation by Gabriele Kahn.
A member of parliament shot, stabbed, and killed as she sought to meet with her constituents, a Polish man dead after he and two friends were subject to an attack by a group of teens, hate crime up throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with a record 58% increase in recorded incidents following the referendum – and now Nigel Farage…
After three of the most eminent judges in England – including the Lord Chief Justice and Master of the Rolls, the two most senior positions in the whole of the judiciary – ruled in the High Court in favour of the longstanding principle of parliamentary sovereignty, there was slander and outcry as the newspapers and politicians in the country have become nothing…
With their tendency to paint or to at least contemplate painting out in the open, their thick and hurried brushstrokes, vivid use of colour, and nuanced portrayals of mutable light, still today the canvases of the French Impressionists appear unusually sensitive, hearty and graceful, vibrant and fresh. Yet beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder, but also…
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Aries (20 March – 19 April) He calls you his love and his darling, but do you still hunger for his touch? * * * Taurus (19 April – 20 May) Milk of Magnesia might go by other brand names abroad, a useful tip as you embark on exciting travels this month. *** Gemini (20 May – 20 June) Parlay…
my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister isabel created hundreds (and hundreds)of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about…
