Why I’m not updating my Privacy Policy

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I would rather lose a prospective client than compromise the trust we have earned from our existing customers. Your email addresses are as safe as an unsinkable boat on dry land.

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Likes for Obituaries

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Is it me, or do others agree that adding a ‘Like’ function to obituaries is not a match made in heaven?

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Back in the Saddle

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One sweet soul wrote people like me made him want to kill himself. I refrained from replying that I was not inclined to stand in his way. I refrained from replying to any of the comments. But yeah, they chinked my confidence.

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Mouse Mayhem and an Unexpected Dilemma

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Fundamentally, I’m a bleeding heart; entirely lacking the magnificent impartial professionalism of wildlife photographers who allow nature to run its course. I’d no doubt be fired for cheering the zebra and tripping the lion.

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Freedom of Speech = Licence to Provoke a Fatal Response?

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I’m exercising my right to state I don’t agree with justifying public exhibitions designed to provoke a reaction that may, predictably, also end in the death or injury of innocents by calling it ‘freedom of speech’.

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Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

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Facing the increasingly disapproving scrutiny of their families and neighbours from two judgemental communities, both protagonists must re-examine the important things in their lives, and ask themselves: which lines should be crossed and which must not?

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