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Whoever cooked up the slavery reparation claim had a sense of humour. But the joke has been repeated so often that it ceases to be a joke.

Using my initiative, I sent my granddaughter to the hospital’s third or fourth-hand bookshop and she acquired for £1.60 a book called Dino by Nick Tosches. It is an account of Rat Pack member Dean Martin. I'm particularly drawn to it because on the outside cover there is the recommendation that readers should buy it on the grounds that it contains ‘one hundred-proof prose at its most scorching…it will melt cash registers.’ I think that is a sufficient recommendation to buy th

I am mystified by the Chancellor's description of changes coming along, he says will be introduced using the 'Labor Way'. I have absolutely no idea what the term the 'Labor Way' means. Has any reader got a view?

Firstly, keep the faith and buy more Jersey Oil & Gas (JOG). Secondly, the government will yield on Rosebank.

I think the most remarkable book that I have ever read was and is the Tower of Babel. To give readers an idea, it is asserted in this book that since the onset of some method of identifying languages, there have been about 15,000 languages - of which only 5000 remain in use. As a result, it causes the reader to wonder why there have been so many entirely separate languages. I recommend people get this book. It's by George Steiner. George was a Cambridge linguistics professor,

I see no reason to sell despite the new highs being achieved. Now 1.575p in the middle.

But unfortunately I had a fall last Sunday and was subsequently unable to stand up. But the NHS have come up with some terrific wheezes and therefore I should be OK.