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  • ROASTING THE POPE


    STEPHEN HUGH-JONES | ON LANGUAGE AND LIFE | November 23rd 2007

    Never discount the strength of other people's gut feelings, especially in matters of religion, says Stephen Hugh-Jones--who admits to a touch of old-fashioned English anti-papism himself ...

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  • THE POLICE STRUGGLE TO LOSE OUR CONFIDENCE


    STEPHEN HUGH-JONES | ON LANGUAGE AND LIFE | November 15th 2007

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    Londoners have a pretty high regard for their policemen, says Stephen Hugh-Jones. Which makes it all the sadder to the see the city's police chief squander that trust by ducking blame for a fatal fiasco ...

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  • THE CASE FOR NICER NATIONALISM

    STEPHEN HUGH-JONES | ON LANGUAGE AND LIFE | November 9th 2007

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    You can be a Scottish (or Irish or Tibetan) nationalist, and the world will enthuse with you; but try being an English one and the world (to say nothing of the Scots) will give you a dark look, complains Stephen Hugh-Jones ...

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  • DO YOU SPEAK SPORT (OR ARE YOU AMERICAN)?

    STEPHEN HUGH-JONES | ON LANGUAGE AND LIFE

    As English rugby hopes for a miracle in Paris, Stephen Hugh-Jones takes pleasure in the worldwide spread of British sports, and puzzles over American exceptionalism in this pursuit, as in so much else ...

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