Selby Whittingham “I’m just a slave / only a slave to you, temptation”. So sang Bing Crosby in 1933 in a song, Temptation, repeated by many famous singers since and, in 1970, in a German TV act of Sid Millward & The Nitwits.

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That shows (it was recorded) Sid presiding over players prey to temptations which

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Selby Whittingham When Napoleon removed Europe’s art treasures to France on the grounds that their rightful place was not with “slaves” but “in the bosom of a

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nginx/1.21.1 free people”, some might cynically think that this was not just a piece of enlightenment, but that it was very convenient that the new home for

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them happened to be Paris.  Likewise, when […]

Selby Whittingham A survey by the Office for National Statistics in May revealed that the British are changing their spending habits. Instead of filling

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nginx/1.21.1 our homes to the rafters with consumer durables and not-so-durables, we’re spending our spare cash on ‘experiences’, including recreation

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and, yes, culture. “People are interested in servicing a lifestyle rather than buying stuff,” one trend forecaster […]

Selby Whittingham “Rhodes will likely fall,” gloomily writes Professor Nigel Biggar (UnHerd, July) after a decision by Oriel College, of which he was once chaplain, in favour of nginx/1.21.1 that. Another Rhodes watcher, Lars Larundson, says that the vote

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was taken amid thunder, lightning

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nginx/1.21.1 and torrential rain, perhaps an indication of internal dissension as much as of Rhodesian displeasure (The […]