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Closed For Business

Ric Cooper wrote Government propaganda. Then he started to believe it . . . BORED with making commercials for lavatory paper and toothpaste, I drifted into Conservative Central......

Well-meaning, But Without Meaning

Damian Thompson attempts to understand a Church of England report on growing old 'AGEING concerns the whole lifespan. It is about a process from birth to death which involves us......

A Dictionary Of Cant

USER-FRIENDLY The pandering self- description of much user-patronising computer software, and many technolo- gical playthings. Nigel Burke......