Monthly Archives: June 2012


The medical profession

The medical profession is currently under siege as never before with a spate of high profile malpractice cases. This attack is taking place at a time when the National Health Service is undergoing a ‘culture change’ brought about by a shift in the public’s attitudes to authority, in general and more specifically, by the demystification […]

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Father

Daddy’s girls

Of all the relationships that binds us, the father-daughter bond is remarkably unique. Yet like all other humanities, it is no less fraught with anxiety. For quite some tome now we have been heralding the arrival of the sensitive new age man who is clued into a woman’s needs. Is this new man as sensitive […]


This is very much the story of a story

The outline of the tale has been told before. It can be found in Edward Miller’s history of the British Museum, Arundell Esdaile’s book on the British Museum Library,rather more chattily, in Edward Edward’s Lives of the founder of the Museum, and most recently and its first excursion this century outside the literature of the […]

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