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First cousin marriage

Kissing Cousins 

The NHS, more used to providing us with rich seams of comedic material than anything vaguely related to health, has struck again, albeit briefly. On an NHS sponsored blog some joker was given free rein to write a posting titled: “Should the UK government ban first-cousin marriage?” Instead of the swift and obvious answer ‘yes’,

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Scotch broth

More Food for Thought

For years, I’ve enjoyed a quick lunch composed of a tin of Heinz Scotch Broth (the most ‘homemade’ tasting of all their soup offerings) with a smoked pork sausage i.e. the brown shiny curled ones that come in a vacuum pack inside a foil outer package, cut up into chunks and added to the soup.

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Little white girl

Human Rights, But Only For Criminals

With the exception of little white girls systematically raped by Pakistani Muslims, ‘far-right gammons’ (native white people) offensively waving flags in their own capital city and homeless veterans sleeping rough on the streets, just about every other tranche of British society has a dedicated activist group, demanding they get special treatment. While you may be fully on-board with

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Sarah Ferguson

Beyond Redemption?

In 1260, John de Balliol, Northern warlord and father of a future King of Scotland, had a problem. His tiff with the Bishop of Durham had turned toxic and the King had taken the cleric’s side. Something had to be done. Doubtless against his will, he submitted to the bishop’s authority and performed a penance,

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African boat migrants

Three Out, a Million to Go

We do keep banging on about illegal migrants in these pages, but that is only because they keep arriving. Once it stops, we will stop. That said, we’re off to a flying start. Last time I checked we had deported three illegal migrants to France under our ‘one in, one out’ policy. Otherwise, according to

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Ed Reardon and his cat Elgar

Ed Reardon’s Week

I have no doubt that many readers of TNC will already be familiar with the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Ed Reardon’s Week. I write this in the hope that I can point some others towards this excellent programme, which began in 2005 and ran its 16th series this year. The eponymous star, played by co-creator Christopher Douglas, is

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