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End of the fairytale

TNC youth correspondent, Jack Watson, gives an update on the depressing level of censorship at Christmas.   I recently watched Free Speech Nation, with Andrew Doyle, and learned that The Pogues’ Christmas classic (Fairytale of New York) is to be censored once again. I am a huge fan of the hit, in fact it must be

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Playing it too safe

I heard the other day from a colleague that a Christmas tree at his place of work had only been half decorated—from the bottom up—because colleagues were insisting on a cherry picker to decorate the upper reaches of the tree safely. I have no idea how high the tree was but being an indoor one

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HELP! I’ve been ‘mis-countried’ – Who’s going to resign?

Before Covid-19 wiped out the whole population of Wuhan I spent five weeks there, courtesy of a Hubei Province Government scholarship for ‘prestigious international scholars’; which was nice. I had several student helpers assigned to me and one of the junior members of staff—‘Rocky’ was his English name—coordinated them. I spent a lot of time

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