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If Symptoms

persist.. . I HAVE a patient to whom I give half an hour's appointment every month not because he is ill, but because he would otherwise plague me with his presence every day......

The Value Of News

John Simpson defends the British media against Douglas Hurd's accusations of subjectivity in foreign reporting DOUGLAS HURD is, I suppose, the most successful foreign secretary......

One Hundred Years Ago

DURING the week, inquests were held on the bodies of two of the men shot by the soldiers in the Featherstone riots. In the case of James Duggan, which was inquired into at......