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My wife tells me, and so it must be right, that now that we are retired we must beware of the involution of our habits and interests. It is all…

Withdrawal from heroin is a trivial matter

We live in Keynesian times: the answer to the economic problems created by a mountain of debt frittered away on trifles is clearly a whole mountain range of debt frittered…

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Reading an account by the historian John Waller of the Dancing Plague in Alsace in 1518 recently, I could not help but notice the interesting but perhaps incomplete parallels with…

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To a hammer everything is a nail, and to a doctor everything is a symptom.

I was recently in a supermarket in a handsome and as yet unspoilt town in…

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Scratch the surface and there is always tragedy, mixed, of course, with wickedness.

Because of the economic crisis, I was waiting at the bus station: £2.80 for a bus instead…

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The other day, the 9.56 bus to the nearest train station was late and the people at the stop — of whom I was by far the youngest — began…

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Anyone who doubts that, at least from the cultural point of view, the Soviet Union won the Cold War in Britain hands down should attend a conference organised for doctors…

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Staying recently on the Herengracht in Amsterdam, I found myself trying to solve a psychological puzzle. How could anyone have thought for a moment, how could any mind have entertained…

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All old Africa hands have a story of their narrow escape from charging elephants to tell. I have one myself, but I know from experience that such stories are usually…

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My one regret at having retired from the National Health Service is that I no longer receive official circulars. I used for a time to derive a small secondary income…