Your car is smarter than you think. And it is not a violation of privacy for your car to automatically store text and call data from your cell phone, following a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Modern convenience often comes with a price of sacrificed privacy, but in this […]
This is a revised version of an article first published on December 16, 2018. CHRISTMAS Day would not be complete without a rousing rendition of O Come All Ye Faithful with the last verse which is given an airing only today. There are many theories about the carol’s origins but an intriguing one connects it with Stonyhurst College, the […]
I HAVE only just come across this. The Messiah Christmas Suite was arranged from the full oratorio by Tom Fettke, the prolific American composer of church music. He was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941, and had music lessons from the age of five. He became the director of a church choir at […]
IT WAS Christmas Day at the Sunaks’ Their Yorkshire mansion was full of good cheer They were California dreamin’ They’d be Stateside in less than a year. When the PM unwrapped his presents His delight could not be surpassed He got a wallet to keep his Green Card in And Bermuda shorts styled at […]
Continuing our series of articles by the much-loved TCW writer Nick Booth, who died in September. It was first published on April 9, 2021. You can read Kathy’s introduction here. THIS week on Disappearing Britain we examine the case of Ian Hislop, the cheeky chappie who disappeared from our screens to be replaced by a clone. Comedy […]
THE set Gospel reading for Christmas Day in the Book of Common Prayer makes clear that the conflict between good and evil is intrinsic to the Christmas message. Today’s reading from the first chapter of John’s Gospel, verses 1 to 14, does not name Jesus Christ, God’s anointed King or Messiah as promised in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The question that has plagued the minds of fans since 1990 may finally be coming to an end — just how much money did the McCallister family have in the beloved Christmas classic “Home Alone”? The New York Times enlisted the help of economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to get to the […]
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