Monday, 27 July 2026

As the D-Day landings were hitting the beach, only 36 per cent of the British people thought the government could be trusted

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Even in the summer of 1944, as the D-Day landings were hitting the beach, only 36 per cent of the British people thought the government coul...
Sunday, 26 July 2026

Countless experiments show that around 10 per cent of the public don’t understand simple percentages.

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MRI studies of the brains of humans (and monkeys!) indicate that we have an inbuilt ‘number sense’, but we are particularly attuned to the n...
Friday, 24 July 2026

It is not every one who has the courage to bring dogs into an expensive private hotel

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It is not every one who has the courage to bring dogs into an expensive private hotel; to bring one dog indicates that you are not accustome...
Thursday, 23 July 2026

Chirac, like most men who have once found a woman weak, imagined that he understood women profoundly

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Chirac, like most men who have once found a woman weak, imagined that he understood women profoundly. He thought of women as the Occidental ...
Wednesday, 22 July 2026

In pastry-making everything can be taught except the "hand,"

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Constance could make good pastry, but it was not her mother's pastry. In pastry-making everything can be taught except the "hand,...
Tuesday, 21 July 2026

You cannot eat a meal in decency without the aid of the Five Towns

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They are unique and indispensable. From the north of the county right down to the south they alone stand for civilization, applied science, ...
Wednesday, 15 July 2026

And if you have no word for blue, how can you see it?

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Since then a more sober explanation has taken hold as the orthodoxy. Analysis of the way in which languages produce words for different colo...