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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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White cliffs of Dover

One in (No)One Out

I predicted recently in these pages that, whatever the government claim they are going to do about illegal migration, they won’t. And once again, they

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London Union Jacks

On Unity 

J. K. Rowling’s work, I confess, leaves me somewhat cold. Harry Potter is just an Enid Blyton boarding school story with sprinklings of magic, cod

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