CONVERSATIONS

a quite interesting conversation – —with John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

QI QUESTIONS

qi questions – —Sixteen fascinating facts from the QI databanks

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ESSAY S

idle idol: william morris —John Mitchinson celebrates a revolutionary life—

qi: down with school —Elements of a New Curriculum

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the truth isn’t out there —Justin Pollard says history is taught all wrong

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my own green hills —Elizabeth Garner contemplates the number seven

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a bit of magic– — David Boyle is away with the fairies

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tommy, born free and is everywhere in chains– — by Bron Jones 131 from the pen of jock scot– — Despatches from a job-free life 143