19:18
Life Expectancy
Life expectancy for males declines by one year every stop on the Jubilee Line east of Westminster. For a male in Russia it is only fifty nine. At the same time, and I find this hard to believe when you see the vast size of so many American women, the life expectancy of a baby girl in Chicargo is over a hundred. If you made it to forty in 1840, and that was a monumental ‘if’, your life expectancy was only four years shorter than it would be now.
19:12
Dyslexia
Two dyslexics were sitting next to each other. ‘Can you smell smoke?’ ‘I can’t even spell my own name.’
15:50
The Terrible Tudors
Philippa Gregory was on the radio discussing the continuing fascination with the Tudors - particularly Henry VIII - a fascination that I don...
18:09
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor, the Liberian warlord that made Sierra Leone a byword for a millennial heart of darkness, has just been found guilty in the H...
11:53
Captain Scott
I have a friend who loves walking to the South Pole. I have asked him to kill me if I ever start talking about joining him; as he was in the...
12:00
The economics of lap-dancing
A lap dancer has just won a case that established her as an employee of, rather than a contractor to, the club where she worked. Lap dancing...
11:05
A view of the end of the world
My wife was telling me about the farmhouse in which she lived when she was at Kent University in the 1970s. The rent was very cheap because ...
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