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Red Rag to a Bull

Petra Marquardt-Bigman’s excellent article on CiF recently was like the proverbial red rag waved i...

Symbolically Shameless

One may be excused for thinking that if ever there’s a wrong side on which to be on whatever issue...

Romain Mythology and JFS

This is a guest post by Jonathan Hoffman Jonathan Romain had an appalling piece in CiF last Wednesda...

Quantity Street

The comments threads on CiF often remind me of those tins of mixed chocolates one gets given at holi...

Joining the Dots

CiF Editor Brian Whitaker appears to need some help when it comes to joining the dots. In his recent...

Comment Macht Frei

I spend a good deal of time analyzing the comment threads on ‘Comment is Free’ with the ...