By William J. Furney If you’re on a plane and your tray-table won’t come down because it’s perched at a perilous angle on your enormous gut, wouldn’t it be a
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By William J. Furney When in Rome, do as the Romans do. And when all over Europe, do as born-and-bred Europeans do, which is most certainly not to parade around
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By William J. Furney Many people are fascinated by the occult, and all too terrified too, and for most that’s about it: a bit of a play-around at Halloween and
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By William J. Furney Europe has had its fill of swashbuckling, cavalier social media firms who are undermining — even “destroying” — democracy in the very place it was born.
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By William J. Furney The British people are not happy. Perched on the northwestern edge of the great continent of Europe from which the civilised world, and democracy, sprung, they
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By William J. Furney Whether humankind was designed or developed from a petri dish-like swamp, it’s a safe bet that either the creator or evolving genes didn’t envision that some
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By William J. Furney It may seem as though there’s never been a better time to be a teenager. Constantly connected with all their pals and all the world’s information
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By William J. Furney Syria is the war without end and one that keeps on giving — to Bashar al-Assad at least. The 52-year-old strongman will have been president of
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By William J. Furney Why are observatories painted white? Wouldn’t a natural shade of green be better, so they’d blend in with the environment and not stick out like an
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By William J. Furney This week European Union leaders met to thrash out critical issues threatening the integrity of the 28-member bloc and apart from the ongoing disaster for the
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