Below is a collection of recent letters to the Daily Telegraph (DT) that all failed to impress the Editor and probably anybody else for that matter: A Real Tonic Oh good! After four years of debate the European Commission has ruled that Britain can keep the name ‘Tonic’. Many will be wondering what …
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Where’s the F in News? Television and Radio critic Jemima Lewis concludes her piece on the Radio 4 programme Where’s the F in News? (Daily Telegraph 13th March 2019) with this: “It [Where’s the F in News?] was feeble both as entertainment and as a feminist statement: an object lesson in the perils of formulaic, …
Oh goodie! After four years of debate the European Commission (EU) has ruled that Britain can keep the name ‘Tonic’. Many will be wondering what other vital investigations are being expensively pursued by the politically directed EU bureaucrats while the rest of the world is worrying about such trivial issues as climate change, fair trade …
The contribution of the Nicholson family to the Bramley Apple ‘industry’ in County Armagh In 1884 Henry Joseph Nicholson planted Armagh’s first Bramley apple tree. Now, just over a century later, the apple industry is blooming. This article outlines the family’s arrival in County Armagh in 1588. ******* To read more: …