“I think this is probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house, “ JFK told his dinner guests one night. Those present would probably have agreed – there were 49 Nobel Prize winners in attendance. The President, however, did not, for he finished his sentence with the words, “apart from those times […]
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“Absolutely brutal” was the GBNews verdict on Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions. Long seen as the Voice of Farage, the channel has been showing some ankle to the Tories recently, their leader appearing on it so frequently they should probably start paying her. To be fair, she does seem to
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When did you become you? It’s hard to tell really. Is there even a “you” for you to have become? Your bloodstream is full of oxygen you have just breathed, your muscles are currently using the protein you recently consumed to build or repair muscle. The “stuff” that makes you up today is not exactly
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There is a pleasing synchronicity that Oxford announced its word of the year is “rage-bait”. After a weekend of splenetic fury over the Chancellor’s statements in the run-up to the Budget, which have been revealed to be, if not lies exactly, then certainly economical with the actualité. One might expect her opponents at the Daily
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In our over-credentialled times, we have come to expect that an “expert” will have some sort of formal qualification. A medical expert on TV will, we assume, be a doctor. A financial expert will have jumped through the regulatory hoops required by the government of their jurisdiction. What, however, of the lady I saw the
There are, as you know, Pyramids in Egypt. You may have been to them. There are, as you know, Pyramids in Mexico. You may have been to them too. What should we conclude from this? Perhaps instead of putting their feet up after dealing with Giza, the Egyptians popped over to Central America and offered
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We are all, it is said, the heroes of our own lives. The world is merely the stage which allows us to strut our stuff. Other people serve as extras to reflect glory on the main character; events, the fuel with which we cement our heroic status. But heroes are competent. Tom Cruise did not
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For something which knows so much about me, Facebook seems to know very little about me. It knows where I went to university, but deluges me with posts from the alumni associations of different institutions, some of which I would not have deigned to go to, some of which did not deign to allow me
It is not so much that karma is what we all know her to be, but that she insists on giving such frequent demonstrations of the fact. Over the weekend I found myself pondering the scene in The Queen in which Prince Charles, concerned about regal inertia in the face of rising popular discontent over
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It had been many years since I was last on a commuter train. This is not, I confess, a particular source of sadness. From an early age, it was noted that my concept of personal space was not dissimilar to the Roman Empire’s view of physical space – what’s mine is mine and what’s yours
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