Sir Bryan Thwaites, a 96-year-old educationalist professor whose £1.2m scholarship scheme for poor white boys was backed by state-school head teachers, the scheme was rejected by elite schools amid fear of racial discrimination. Sir Bryan offered to leave the money in his will so that children could follow in his footsteps with scholarships to Dulwich…
Veronica Duque, a 43-year-old Spanish school teacher, wore a bodysuit depicting human anatomy for her students to teach them about the subject. “Knowing how hard it’s for kids so young to visualise the disposition of internal organs, I thought it was worth giving it a try” Veronica said and added she found the suit online…
THE PERFECT WAY TO GET OUT AND ABOUT AND JOIN THE ARTISTIC ELITE documented in the wonderful “Art London” a new book on the scene. This neat little book is a wonderful guide to all things Art mainly in London. I have been to some of the Art Fairs referred to on page 8 and…
The modern liberalism since 1843, The Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. Today, neither economic crisis at home nor permanent warfare abroad, has dimmed the Economist’s belief in unfettered markets, limited government and a free hand for the West. The history of liberalism is on…
The year is 1964, in Ceylon, Jay and Kairo have debut meeting, “ I needed a guide, a hero, illumination, Jay, I now know, needed an acolyte” says Kairo, the narrator of the book, when Ceylon is on the brink of change with schools closed, the government in disarray, the press is under threat and…
Many of us take the buildings around us for granted. We pass them on a bus, work worship or live in them and sometimes never look into the complex subject of the designing placing and construction of them. But this book breaks the mould and makes us think! This handy sized book measuring 5 by 7…
Review of “33 Walks in London that you shouldn’t miss” by Nicola Perry. Photographs by Daniel Reiter. Anyone who lives in or visits London would love this book. I have read a few different chapters on walks and all of them are timed, contain photos, are directed and contain fully comprehensive details on what you…
“Revising one sentence” is the title on Lydia Davis’s lucid collection and according to her if a short story is a love affair and a novel is a marriage, then her very short stories sometimes just a single sentence is more like a one-night stand. Spanning more than 30 years Essays, the first of two…
Richard Davies in his latest book “Extreme Economies” gives us a global tour of disasters and recovery and studies the irrepressible markets inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary where there’s the mackerel economy –tinned mackerel being light, standardized and durable, and makes a good currency and the dot economy. In the outside world,…
Dorothy L Sayers famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, was also equally known during her life for an essay asking “Are Women Human?” Women’s rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers’s lifetime as she and her friend were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford although they faced…