Browsing Category 'In Defence Of'

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Rhona Scullion discovers why her mother said those things she said. When we were little, my sister and I were joined at the hip. She hero-worshipped me and I thought she was useful to have in case I needed someone to blame at any point during our many misdemeanours. We remained close despite this blatant [...]

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So you’ve written off gaming to your boyfriend or little brother, girls it’s time to think twice about what you’ll be asking Santa for this Christmas. Around this time of year our televisions are swamped in a deluge of advertisements for the Christmas season’s hottest toys and gadgets, and the fine retailers that stock them. [...]

Alcohol City

The sobber, the initiator and the sociopath, not to mention the arsonist. Who’s in your academic family?  First off: I’m not a total fun-sucker. I even put ‘sober(ish)’ in the title. I love a good G and T (or six), so far be it for me to render judgement on the boozy masses. To me the [...]

Plain Good Manners

Rhona Scullion defends the art of good manners.  I’m sure that the more people I meet, the older I feel. As they shove past  me in the street or cut into the queue in Tesco (a crime which to be quite frank I  think would be cut right down with a nice public flogging as [...]