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The writer and poet Robert Graves liked to present his listeners with a riddle. What word can have its metrical quantity – simply, its number

Standards appear to be slipping in so many fields of human endeavour. Recent well-publicised claims to membership of the Mile-High Club , writes a correspondent,

Bob Hoskins, the actor who died last week, is reported to have received a call some years ago from Steven Spielberg’s office asking about his

“Spain translates more books in one year than have been translated into Arabic in the last 900 years.” “According to the United Nations, in 2012,

In 1964 when Harold Wilson led the Labour Party to power, two thirds of the British electorate were working class. By 2010, just three sevenths

Since 2006 the British Government has stripped 42 people of citizenship, 20 of them in 2013. Due process is not required; the Home Secretary need