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Of Queenliness and Godliness
I was delighted to learn this afternoon that diplomacy has compelled the Pope to congratulate the Queen of England on her diamond jubilee, and he has chosen to do so by calling her a “noble vision of...
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Polyglot Lovin’
Despite a marked preference for all films superhero, I haven’t seen The Amazing Spiderman yet. This is because I was supposed to see it with a young gent, whose company I find I no longer particularly...
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The English Colonial (1)
Just this morning at work, we had a bit of a scuffle over language. Well, I say scuffle. My colleagues are mostly too darling to get into one of those. Honest ideological debates blazing righteous...
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Bloodline Whoring
Willie the Pwince and his wife Kate have been at multiplying! Hallelujah to another generation of tax-leeches. Yay you, UK!Filed under: Institutions, mythical beasts, Obligingly Flippant,...
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The True Marriage Mill
My last post was really intended to be a slightly padded quote from Mill, whose writing I found personally appealing rather more for the cynical component than the ethical aspects. To be clear about my...
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Raising Steam: A Review and An Epitaph
I will be brief in my disappointment. Terry Pratchett’s Raising Steam is not worth your time. Cover Image, 2013. And now let us be downright expansive about why this is so. Although the premise of the...
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Mummy, Quoth She Firmly
After some gentle cajoling, I lent pieces of my cherished young adult fiction collection to a young person in his early twenties. I like this person well enough, but he has the unfortunate desire to...
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Nosy Neighbour Tales
I found this lovely little anecdote on Reddit, to which I have recently become rather addicted (anything text-based usually has my obsessive adoration). India is a land of nosy neighbours, but alas,...
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