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We were all waiting. The patient, already anaesthetised, was lying on the operating table. The anaesthetist, sitting at the head of the table, presiding like father at Sunday lunch, kept one eye on the machine by his side and the …

We should all thank Nigel Farage for beating the British banks and forcing them to behave like grown-ups and for single-handedly forcing them to stop banning customers who don’t follow the official line on the EU, climate change and other

The Government and the mainstream media (but especially the official Government mouthpiece – the awful BBC) are so frightened of the truth that they do everything they can to ensure that truths are suppressed and the truth-tellers are silenced and …

Interest rates were kept absurdly low for years in order to trap business and home owners into acquiring huge debts. As interest rates race up towards normal the cost of servicing loans and mortgages becomes impossible. Millions who bought overpriced …

Vernon Coleman’s hugely popular book Know Yourself has just been republished as a paperback. The book contains 940 questions that reveal the real you. Are you loyal, obsessive or inquisitive? What job is right for you? Will you ever be …

Before the industrial age hospitals were built like cathedrals in order to lift the soul and ease the mind. Hospitals were decorated with carvings, works of art, flowers and perfumes. Modern hospitals are built with no regard for the spirit, …

President John Kennedy was pushed into accepting Johnson as his vice president. (Johnson had evidence of Kennedy’s philanderings.) ‘I’m 43-years-old,’ said JFK, ‘I’m not going to die in office. So the vice presidency doesn’t mean anything.’ A Dutch optician insisted