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I've never been a great believer in the "blood is thicker than water" theory ...

...as J. K. Rowling has proved, if you write it (a good story) they will read.

“Politics don’t belong in sports” is an oft-heard mantra. The fact is, the two are such a large part of American society they cannot help but be intertwined. Look at the focus on Pat Tillman when he left the NFL to join the Army and when he was killed in …

I can pretty well guarantee you'll find some new view of one of your favourite puzzles.

On a casual stroll through a bookstore my eye caught Robert’s Rules of Writing. Because of it’s play on Robert’s Rules of Order. I took the book from the shelf and flipped it over, mostly interested to see what angle this author took on the over-published topic of how to …

Pathological is probably the first word that comes to mind ... meet(ing) Willie Wonka for the first time.

Philippa Gregory's The Queen's Fool is an entertaining, well-researched novel of Tudor times.

Hype. The modern American way of getting attention. It seems to have worked for John Twelve Hawks, the pseudonymous author.

...to fathom the contempt George Orwell would have held for current standards of reportage.

Now they blend in with the rest. Selling the brand without questioning the content.