Beatty, Beckett, Belcher, Bellow. Hangin' out with the big boys. The Newspaper Man, £10.99. It's not really about newspapers, but it is about men and - more importantly - women. Available via all good/ bad/ so-so bookshops. Ideal Christmas gift (same applies to Messrs Beatty, Beckett and Bellow).

As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.

Ideal Christmas gifts for the coolest Yuletiders!

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