Issue 142

.. culture in which process BBC radio and TV played a pivotal role. The preservation of The Arts as a rarefied pleasure reserved for those of noble birth couldn’t be sustained and so the definition of culture had to be broadened, and broadened in such a way as to include and respect the way of…

..and Uzbekistan lie to the north, Iran the west, Pakistan to the south and the People’s Republic of China to the east. If you didn’t live there it would have little to recommend it and a large percentage of the population has become refugees from decades of conflict – mostly fleeing into Pakistan. Currently a…

..of the words, foolproof and incapable of error……’ has come to me from every electronic device I have tried to live with culminating in the locked-down ‘we know so very, very much better than you’ world of Apple. We have become inured to the sights and sounds of assembly lines dominated by robots, one or…

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..socio-economic status of the students. Private schools send all their problems to State schools where teachers cope with extraordinary generosity of spirit. Most of the time. But this, perhaps not too tangentially, brings to my attention the absurd amounts that CEOs of large corporations are paid, which is both disproportionate and absurd in relation to…