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The expert witness, or God’s locum

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A Particular Welcome

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Down the Rabbit Hole

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Sun, sea, sensation, servants

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Brooklyn babies need to learn their place: Milk bottles and beer bottles do not mix

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Public robbery and the NHS

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The Cover-Up Over Jon Venables is a Cowardly Disgrace

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Knight of the white elephant

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Thank You For Not Expressing Yourself

Posted by Steve at 3/2/2010 7:27 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Ripper should not be allowed anywhere near parole

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The draw of dusty tomes

Posted by Steve at 3/2/2010 6:56 AM | Add Comment

Ill feelings

Posted by Steve at 2/19/2010 6:08 PM | Add Comment

The man of the crowd

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My brain made me do it!

Posted by Steve at 2/9/2010 2:02 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Save the Planet by Outlawing Lampshades

Posted by Steve at 2/5/2010 3:24 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Suicide of the West

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Ye olde antismoking lobby

Posted by Clinton at 2/4/2010 3:59 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Theodore Dalrymple gets a parking ticket

Posted by Steve at 2/3/2010 5:03 PM | Add Comment

Ayn Rand: engineer of souls

Posted by Steve at 2/3/2010 4:38 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Please Feel My Pain

Posted by Clinton at 2/3/2010 1:17 AM | Add Comment

The Galbraith Revival

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Thoughts of Revolution

Posted by Steve at 2/1/2010 10:43 PM | Add Comment

Still Open

Posted by Steve at 1/31/2010 11:11 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

A man without gaiety

Posted by Clinton at 1/31/2010 12:21 PM | Add Comment

Lessons in Health Care from the Edinburgh Zoo

Posted by Steve at 1/29/2010 8:53 AM | Add Comment

A Modest Proposal for Curing Back Pain

Posted by Steve at 1/24/2010 9:02 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The ailments of the Lambs

Posted by Clinton at 1/21/2010 7:41 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Haiti’s Apocalypse

Posted by Clinton at 1/17/2010 8:34 PM | Add Comment

Affirmative Action A La Française

Posted by Steve at 1/15/2010 9:57 AM | Add Comment

An aural question

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Nine promises that say it all about our Soviet-style NHS

Posted by Clinton at 1/11/2010 11:37 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Yemen Beware! Gordon Brown has plans to save you

Posted by Clinton at 1/7/2010 4:59 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

We Are All Guilty

Posted by Steve at 1/6/2010 9:36 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Eternal Detective

Posted by Clinton at 12/29/2009 2:16 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

I hereby resolve to make fewer resolutions

Posted by Clinton at 12/29/2009 1:44 PM | Add Comment

Baconians versus Stratfordians

Posted by Clinton at 12/23/2009 11:57 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Will Dubai be reclaimed by the sand?

Posted by Steve at 12/20/2009 10:22 AM | Add Comment

A grave matter

Posted by Clinton at 12/18/2009 3:11 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Christianity has been demoted by the political class

Posted by Steve at 12/12/2009 11:53 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Soppy Sop

Posted by Steve at 12/4/2009 6:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Oh Calcutta!

Posted by Clinton at 12/4/2009 4:50 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The forgotten poet laureate

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Loose Ends in Liverpool

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Soviet Britain

Posted by Clinton at 12/1/2009 3:36 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Breakfast With Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith

Posted by Steve at 11/30/2009 10:31 PM | Add Comment

Taking your holiday at an airport hotel

Posted by Steve at 11/30/2009 10:30 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Smoking: out for the count

Posted by Steve at 11/30/2009 10:28 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Bloodless Saga

Posted by Steve at 11/25/2009 9:35 AM | Add Comment

PC Unto Death

Posted by Steve at 11/24/2009 6:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Architect As Totalitarian

Posted by Clinton at 11/23/2009 2:14 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Workshops and why you must avoid them

Posted by Steve at 11/22/2009 10:25 AM | Add Comment

Apologies and Letters

Posted by Steve at 11/22/2009 10:24 AM | Add Comment

An Inside Story

Posted by Clinton at 11/21/2009 2:59 PM | Add Comment

Emotional, My Dear Watson

Posted by Clinton at 11/21/2009 2:34 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Sorry, Florence. No degree, no job.

Posted by Steve at 11/16/2009 8:19 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Being offensive should not be a cause for complaint to the police

Posted by Steve at 11/6/2009 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Dear Sir or Madam

Posted by Steve at 11/6/2009 7:26 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Don’t believe in miracles

Posted by Steve at 11/6/2009 7:24 PM | Add Comment

Cutthroats in White Coats

Posted by Steve at 11/6/2009 10:17 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Sound sleep advice

Posted by Steve at 11/4/2009 1:13 PM | Add Comment

Let Them Inherit Debt

Posted by Steve at 11/3/2009 10:05 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The costs of abstraction

Posted by Clinton at 11/3/2009 4:18 PM | Add Comment

Poet scorner

Posted by Clinton at 10/30/2009 6:06 PM | Add Comment

Let us subsidise tickets to football matches

Posted by Steve at 10/29/2009 8:32 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Sanatorium Blues

Posted by Clinton at 10/21/2009 1:29 PM | Add Comment

Intrusions

Posted by Steve at 10/19/2009 7:50 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Jerome K. Jerome Syndrome

Posted by Clinton at 10/16/2009 5:03 PM | Add Comment

The prophet of personal space

Posted by Steve at 10/6/2009 11:02 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

It’s Only Anti-Social

Posted by Steve at 10/6/2009 10:53 PM | Add Comment

No fleas on me

Posted by Steve at 10/6/2009 10:49 PM | Add Comment

The Cult of Insincerity

Posted by Steve at 10/4/2009 8:56 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Now I’m a believer

Posted by Steve at 10/4/2009 8:54 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The world before vaccines is too easy to forget

Posted by Steve at 9/29/2009 8:49 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Cries and whispers

Posted by Steve at 9/29/2009 8:47 PM | Add Comment

The British Disease

Posted by Steve at 9/27/2009 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Mon Dieu, the French are behaving like the English!

Posted by Steve at 9/21/2009 11:34 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Spoiled for choice

Posted by Steve at 9/19/2009 11:30 AM | View Comments (20) | Add Comment

A life at stake

Posted by Steve at 9/19/2009 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Death shall have no dignity

Posted by Steve at 9/19/2009 11:22 AM | Add Comment

The Repellent Mr Ross

Posted by The Skeptical Doctor Blog at 9/12/2009 10:38 AM | Add Comment

The abolition of memory

Posted by Steve at 9/12/2009 8:46 AM | Add Comment

Crime and Punishment

Posted by Steve at 9/4/2009 9:50 PM | Add Comment

A box of tricks

Posted by Steve at 9/4/2009 9:04 PM | Add Comment

Inflation’s Moral Hazard

Posted by Steve at 9/1/2009 11:01 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Doctors and the dictator

Posted by Steve at 8/23/2009 11:30 PM | Add Comment

A little more than kin

Posted by Clinton at 8/14/2009 12:03 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Tracking the troublemakers

Posted by Clinton at 8/10/2009 11:17 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Man vs. Mutt

Posted by Clinton at 8/8/2009 1:51 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Forgotten pleasures

Posted by Clinton at 8/7/2009 11:30 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Struggle for A Continent

Posted by Clinton at 8/3/2009 10:28 AM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

Fujimori

Posted by Steve at 8/2/2009 9:36 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Mesmerising evidence

Posted by Steve at 8/2/2009 9:20 PM | Add Comment

The "right" to health care has led to substandard care

Posted by Clinton at 7/29/2009 10:04 AM | View Comments (19) | Add Comment

A Right to Healthcare?

Posted by Steve at 7/26/2009 10:16 AM | View Comments (15) | Add Comment

A telling tale

Posted by Steve at 7/25/2009 9:18 AM | Add Comment

Best of Times, Worst of Times

Posted by Steve at 7/22/2009 3:57 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Modernists in Medieval Clothing

Posted by Steve at 7/17/2009 7:24 AM | Add Comment

Doing the books

Posted by Steve at 7/16/2009 9:54 PM | Add Comment

Dropping out and being free

Posted by Steve at 7/12/2009 5:46 AM | Add Comment

The Ugliness of Andrew Murray

Posted by Steve at 7/6/2009 10:29 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment
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