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Gliding With Grace

For a young girl growing up with the family nickname of Moose the chances of her parents spending their hard-earned money on dance lessons w...

Will You Fill Out This Paleo Diet Survey?

This week, I received an e-mail from a graduate student at Humboldt State University named May Patiño.  She asked me to share her online res...

Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had?

While Britain watched The Great British Bake Off, BBC2 showed this excellent documentary on the career of Denis Healey. You can now view it ...

Michelle Thomson was to play a starring role at SNP conference

View image | gettyimages.com From the Telegraph website this evening: Michelle Thomson was due to play a “starring role” alongside Nicola ...

A Lib Dem haiku for National Poetry Day

A candidate stands His deposit flutters off On the soft May breeze

Hidden In View

As the sun sets on a summer afternoon filled with freedom or on one of those final warm days in autumn, a chill seeping into the air, neighb...

Mushroom Hunting Safety

Mushroom hunting (also known as foraging) can be a fun and rewarding outdoor activity for people of all ages. Once regarded as a strange and...

James Fox on Performance

View image | gettyimages.com Performance is one of the key British films of the 1960s and James Fox's portrayal of a gangster, all hood...