Category: A’s Assortment

ACCORDING to the Bible (Romans 6:23), the wages of sin is death. According to a French court, however, the wages of sin is also a nice fat payout. Incredibly, appeal judges … Continue readingDeath on the job

WHEN writing Tuesday’s piece about German food, I was confident it was so exaggerated that no one could possibly take it seriously. And indeed hundreds of readers gave it the thumbs-up, Teutons … Continue readingGerman cuisine: An apology

JUST in case you thought Project Fear could be ratcheted up no further, here comes another devastating warning. The Germans have threatened that their food producers might stop exporting to the … Continue readingGerman food: What we’ll be missing

A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara; Picador 2015 WHEN our dog Bingo clattered into a garden table while chasing a ball, causing terminal damage to wine glasses and a newly … Continue readingA not so little slice of life

THE answer to the prejudice blighting the world has been staring us all in the visage, according to an Italian psychologist. Zapping the brain with electricity would wipe out bias … Continue readingZap those Brexit mutineers, Boris

ACCORDING to the calendar on our kitchen wall, today is the second of August. Yet when you look at the news, every day seems to be the first of April. … Continue readingOff with her head!

LATEST news from the football transfer window – Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, has signed Gary Lineker as a visiting fellow. The fee is unspecified but, knowing the lad, he won’t … Continue readingAnd on the left wing for Oxford, Salt ’n’ Lineker

OH, to live in Berkeley, California, where they’ve really got their priorities right. In a radical overhaul, all ‘gendered’ language is to be removed from the official city code to make … Continue readingThe Leftie who puts the berk in Berkeley

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton HERE is a horror story. There are no knife maniacs, masked murderers or chainsaw wielding cannibals in this portrayal of crushing boredom in … Continue readingHamilton House of Horror

ROGER is a heart surgeon. For fifty gruelling hours each week he operates under immense pressure with consummate skill, saving lives. For this he is, quite rightly, well remunerated to … Continue readingFair pay for Federer?