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TOM UTLEY: The animals really are taking over our world

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As a fellow scribbler remarked elsewhere this week, wild animals seem to possess ‘some atavistic sixth sense that humans are in disarray or on the retreat’.  His theory is certainly borne out by my own observations of the behaviour of the local fauna in our South London suburb.  For many years now, we’ve been plagued … Read more

TOM UTLEY: I wish religion was as easy to take up as, say, colonic irrigation

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As my mother lay on her deathbed, visitors who asked her how she was feeling would get one of three answers: ‘I’m very well, thank you’; ‘I’m blooming’; or, ‘I’m in the pink’. You didn’t have to be a consultant oncologist to realise this wasn’t strictly true. For one thing, she was so ill towards … Read more