I thought I would update you on my recent medical adventures. So, I had a catheter fitted: albeit it only for a couple of weeks. Steve Latham But on Monday, I had it removed. A wonderful feeling! And it wasn’t just the freedom from discomfort. To pee – […]
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Existentialism and the Y chromosome
Every male on earth, from the earliest time, has carried a “Y” chromosome (the X-shaped bundles of DNA, contained within the cell nucleus) inherited from the father, which makes him differ from the female, with two X chromosomes. Nigel Pocock In 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his classic statement […]
The heart of lightness
These three short novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner, written in the 1920s and ‘30s, show the author to be one of the most underappreciated of 20th century British writers of fiction. Sean Sheehan The stories have very different settings and characters and are testimony to the imaginative range […]
Trouble down below
I woke up in hospital, on a Monday afternoon, and behold! – a catheter was protruding from my nether regions. Steve Latham I’d gone in for an investigation, to see whether I had bladder cancer; the result was gratifyingly negative. But I had not expected to leave with […]
Macri denies support for social repression in Bolivia
Former Argentinian president Mauricio Macri broke his silence, two days after the scandal regarding his backing of social repression in Bolivia in 2019, he refuted the facts and claimed to be politically persecuted. Already in the international spotlight following the Bolivian government’s complaint against his support with military weapons […]
















