Category: Briefs

Briefs

Strictly For the Birds

Energy saving measures, such as loft insulation and filling gaps between the eaves of houses, may be partly responsible for a two thirds decline since

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Reeling in the Years

Bob Dylan is to be awarded the US MusiCares Person of the Year Award 2015 by President Jimmy Carter next month. It is 53 years

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Tales of Truce

TV advertising would have us believe that British and German troops took a break 100 years ago this week, but how peaceful was the Christmas

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All for Guns and Guns for All

According to the New York Times, law enforcement officials are often powerless to intervene when people with a record of mental illness exercise their right

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Rogue Males

The Ministry of Justice in England and Wales last week repealed and removed from the statute book the offence of “being an incorrigible rogue”. The

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Chequing Castro

US President Obama yesterday reached out to the government of Cuba to normalise the relationship between the two countries. There have been no official talks

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