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Queen Victoria is not amused
It’s her weekend and are we planting our gardens without fear they’ll freeze overnight? Are we opening our cottages, swatting the blackflies, gassing up at
The Arms Race
Just as a Smith & Wesson beats four aces, so too does a 10,000-a-day vaccination site beat even these last few days of sunshine to
A drop to drink
Canada has more fresh water than any country and more lakes than the rest of the world combined. So is it too much to ask
Saturday soul-searching –and soul-selling.
Odds are, you’ve had at least one shot, and if you’re American or British, both. But if you’re like me, you’re still suffering from vaccine-envy.
Newspapers, not oldspapers
Donald Trump repeatedly called it “the failing New York Times.” It sort of was until Trump took office. Then it went on a tear, fuelled by
Old toffs. Old tricks.
I went to boarding school back in the 60s when most of the ‘masters’ had degrees from Oxford or Cambridge and spoke with upper-class British
Time to stretch the parts of you that other days don’t.
Scientific research has two roads: curiosity-driven and problem-solving. In the first, you get to ask: “Gee, what would happen if?” In the second, you’re asking:
Love letters
“Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed.” That’s the subhead of last week’s New Yorker article by
Hemingway would weep
Wayne LaPierre is under fire. The head of the National Rifle Association used to lead America’s most powerful and well-funded lobby group. He still does,
Big ideas in small packages
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of Ramsay Writes, designed to divert our gaze from the dull and the usual, and remind us how odd and
Feed the Arts. Grow the Nation.
Why do arts groups argue for more funds from governments and corporate sponsors by using their second-best argument for that money? It goes like this:
The No Diva Rule
My friend in the music business told me their staff were sent an artist profile whenever the company signed a new rising star. In the
Playtime for Grownups
My enormous inner child needs constant feeding and watering. Yours should too. Not with other kids. Just the two of you because only you know
Can a ward heeler be a real healer?
The Washington Post ran a contest long ago for the most boring headline of the year. The winner was “Canadian initiative launched.” The word that
Where are the clients’ yachts?
The world’s best con man, Bernie Madoff, died last week in a North Carolina prison, where he was 11 years into his 150-year sentence for
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