Canada Is Not So Much A Country

The Nanny Seemed To Be Extinct Until 1975, When, Like The Coelacanth, She Suddenly And Unexpectedly Reappeared In The Shape Of Margaret Thatcher.

All Over The U.s. There Are People Whose Lives Are Being Destroyed For Lack Of Proper Health Care Provision, And There Is No Sight More Odious Than The Rich, Powerful And Arrogant Trying To Keep It That Way.

When You Visit A Foreign City You Are In It, But Not Of It, Separated By A Glass Wall. Once, While A Student, I Was Getting Dressed In My Ground-floor Room When A Family Of Italians Crossed The Grass To Watch, As If I Were Laid On For Their Amusement And Instruction.

Curiously, It Is Hard Not To Be A Little Optimistic About The Future For Zimbabwe (as Nobody At All Calls It Yet, Except In Political Speeches). The Fear Is Not That There Will Be Mass Slaughter Of The Whites, Followed By Their Flight To South Africa And The Collapse Of The Economy, But That The Need To Retain White Confidence May Mean That The Blacks Are Badly Disappointed.

Corney & Barrow Are Proud To Have The Royal Warrant, Meaning That They Provide The Palace With Some Of The Greatest - And Necessarily Most Expensive - Wines From Around The World. I Am Pleased To Say That They Also Hold My Own Warrant, For Providing Exceptional Wines At - Surprisingly - Modest Prices.