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Shelley Bridgeman wrote this in the New Zealand Herald , an allegedly serious newspaper, and Danyl McLauchlan wrote this at the Dim-Post, ...

Neil Shah in the Wall Street Journal reports : Duff McKagan, the former bassist of Guns N’ Roses, once unwittingly spent $40,000 on expen...

There is plagiarism and there is plagiarism. Q.R. Markham’s debut crime novel Assassin of Secrets received some great reviews. Here is a s...

Mick Hartley, keen collector of curatorial curiosities, or what Paul Litterick at the Fundy Post calls “artwank”, reports from the show Ges...

In the December issue of Word magazine, regular contributor Fraser Lewry writes: Last month I relocated my desk to the Southern Hemispher...

Quentin Letts, parliamentary sketch-writer for the Daily Mail , writes in the Diary column of the Spectator ’s 26 November issue: An emba...

In 1988 the Maori activist and trade unionist Syd Jackson , who died in 2007, travelled to Libya. This caused a fuss at the time. He was acc...

It’s mostly nasty but we do have to give them credit for the sandwich in all its infinite variety. For example, this tasty but sadly not gl...

From, as it happens, The Week , the 26 November edition, on English actress Dulcie Gray : The diabolist Aleister Crowley became an ardent fa...

On this morning’s walk I took a new route, away from the cows and horses and bravely into the suburbs. I passed a house with a large sign ou...