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Dr Johnson, a very fine lost literary giant indeed
I never knew a man laugh more heartily...
The write stuff: there's no substitute for ink and paper
Anyone who has received a handwritten love letter knows the extraordinary effect that the sight of a familiar script can have
Madonna: is this a dignified look for a woman approaching 50?
It's Montmartre in the 1890s - Madonna does Yvette Guilbert
So, Andy Murray isn't a charmer. Well, why is the mob so obsessed with this dubious quality anyway?
International diplomacy, rule one: don't shrink from squeezes, smooches, hugs and air-kisses
Ordinary folk would be shrieking ‘Ew, ptui, ptui! Get away from me!'
Parliamentary debate could be enriched by studying classics of children's literature
Sit down, Darling. And you, Brown, kindly refrain from gnawing your nails
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Speculative Knitting results in the Endless Comforter and the Gent's Sleeveless Errand
The single woman, then and now
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Could Britain go Slow? Let me chew that over
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Why should late bloomers be blighted at the age of 16?
If my son opens his GCSE results to find that the grades that took me to Oxford won't admit him to a sixth form, I refuse to think of him as...
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Jane Shilling's column appears in the paper every Friday. She lives in Greenwich and recently published a memoir The Fox in the Cupboard
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