We all know it will happen. Sooner or later, someone, somewhere, will become fed up with an overly doctrinaire vegan and go on a rant about The Vegan Agenda. Notice how simple italics can make an idea appear more legitimate. ‘Fed up’ is an apt phrase in this context because the angry fabulist will almost certainly…
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Worlds upon worlds
Imagine you’re a fisherman living on the banks of the Nile. You don’t yet know it, but your catch has made the Pharaoh and his family ill. In the middle of the night you wake to sounds of your reed-built shack being ransacked. You freeze at the glint of light in the shape of the…
100 weasels, or why reading is good for the country
I just finished reading a novel for the first time in a while. Following a daring young woman in Churchill’s SOE, through a maze of clues, set-backs and close-calls, it was unusually satisfying when the author led me to an ending, good and true. I expect that’s because it’s less of a given, lately, that things will…
Sailing the Aegean it is not
Like a story long told from village to village, after a trip with many trials of spice and siren, naysayers and cyclops, I give you a bright splash at which even Odysseus might not have turned up his nose. Happily, I have reached what is probably the last iteration of my attempt to recreate our…
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