This particular rant was inspired (?) by my latest phone bill. Not the exorbitant, outrageous, unjustifiable, swingeing charges -- not this time, anyway -- but by the new Telecom logo.I'm not sure how long it's been around but I've only just noticed the scribbled cross. What does it mean?
Another birthday and a welcome book... Dawn French's first book [1]. It is a different approach to writing an autobiography; in recalling her childhood she reflects views of our correspondent John Northcott
When I was at primary school, there were more than forty in the class. That alone should, according to the current wisdom, have scarred me for life. But it's physical scars, not mental ones, which I want to go on about.
Whenever the word environment is brought into discussion, most people these days immediately go off on a tangent about global warming or climate change because too many of us do not understand the full scientific measure of it. Politicians made sure of that.
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