Why is Christmas the most wonderful time of the year? Is it all the mistletoeing and hearts that are glowing? Yeah, that all rocks, but my values — and kicks — revolving around Christmas joy have taken a holly jolly turn — and I’d like to get you on board. […]
WE’RE in the second millennium and the twenty-third yearUp here in Craster we’re in rude health, never fearThe utter madness around us makes me smile every dayOur leaders don’t lead, no one believes what they sayWe’ve got climate and covid and Biden’s mad warAnd hate between Islam and Israel expands more and moreThe doctors are […]
AS ST Paul wrote in Corinthians 13:11, ‘When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.’ When I was a child I believed in Santa Claus. I have vivid memories of the approaching […]
As we approach the end of the year, we are repeating our twenty most-read articles of 2023, in reverse order. This is number 8 and it was first published on June 14. MARIANNA Spring, the BBC’s ‘Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent’, was aiming for the kill. Announcing BBC Verify a few weeks ago, Spring specified a ‘conspiracy newspaper’ as […]
Continuing our series of articles by the much-loved TCW writer Nick Booth, who died in September. It was first published on November 3, 2020. You can read Kathy’s introduction here. THE man from Parcelforce is a cheeky monkey. He rings everyone’s bell, but when we open the door there’s nobody there. Then I spot him […]
THE Prayer Book Epistle reading for today, the Fourth Sunday in Advent, is a beautiful exhortation to faithful Christian prayer. It comes from the Apostle Paul’s New Testament letter to the Christian church in 1st century Philippi: ‘Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known to all men. The […]
While Notes from the Sticks is having a short break, we are repeating some previous columns. This was first published on December 4, 2022. WHEN we lived in the London suburbs, I would occasionally see clumps of mistletoe in trees, but it doesn’t often grow as far north as Lancashire. It is hard to see […]
I missed this when it was published Thursday but it’s still very relevant. John McWhorter makes the argument that Claudine Gay already appeared to be sort of a borderline figure academically and now many of the few articles she has managed to publish have been revealed to contain plagiarism. It has always been inconvenient that […]
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OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man died in a shooting Saturday at a shopping mall in central Florida in which the victim was apparently “targeted” for the attack, police said.Ocala Police Chief Mike Balken told reporters Saturday evening that the man was killed after he was shot multiple times in a common area at Paddock […]
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