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1 - Abortion
2 - Abortion, 2004 film on C4
3 - Local Accents
3a - Addiction
4 - Afghanistan: Pertinax 01.xxxiv
5 - Afghanistan: BM 2011
6 - Africa: Pertinax 02.vi
7 - Age of Consent: Pertinax CXLIV
8 - Air Pollution: Pertinax LIX & CXXXIII
9 - Airports
10 - Airports: Pertinax 02.XLI
11 - Albania: Pertinax XLI
12 - Albi and Thereabouts
13 - Alcohol: Pertinax 02.XIX
14 - Alcohol
15 - Alexander: In Turkey - Antalya issues
16 - Algeria: Tassili Rock Art
17 - Ana-Paula
18 - Animal Welfare: Pertinax V
19 - Animal Welfare: Pertinax CXLI
20 - Anti-Semitism: Pertinax CXI & CXVI
21 - Anti-Semitism: Pertinax 03.XXV
22 - Apathy: Pertinax 01.XVI
23 - The Apprentice
24 - Architects: Pertinax III
25 - Armed Forces: Homosexuality, Racism, Women: Pertinax XLIV
26 - Leaving the Army: Pertinax CIX
27 - Asexuality
28 - Assault on the Underground
29 - Austria: Pertinax 2.V
30 - Away
31 - Ballet
32 - Barking Mad
33 - Battersea Power Station: Pertinax 2.XVIII
33a - Battery Hens
34 - Battle of Britain
35 - BBC: Pertinax 2. VII & XXV
36 - BBC Language: Pertinax XIV
37 - BBC License: Pertinax 02.v
38 - BBC: Lyneham: Pertinax CLXVIII
39 - Bear Baiting: Pertinax 01.ii
40 - The Beastly Bicycle: Pertinax LIV
41 - Beckham's Wedding
42 - Beef: Roast of Old England
43 - Beggars and Blair: Homeless: Pertinax XXXIV
43a - Beggars
44 - Benefits: Pertinax LIII
45 - Benn: Pertinax LX
46 - Goodbye to Berlin
47 - Bible Sex: Pertinax 03.xxiv
48 - Bible Stories
49 - Bicycles: Pertinax LIV
50 - Big Brother
51 - Bizet, Georges
52 - Black Africa: Pertinax XLVI
53 - Black Babies: Pertinax 02.xxvi
54 - Blair: The Years of
55 - Blasphemy
55a - Blunt, Anthony
56 - Body Parts: Pertinax 01.v
57 - Book Reviews
58 - Books
59 - Boris Godunov
60 - Melvyn Bragg: PertinaxCLXXII
61 - Bragg, Melvyn: Pertinax 2.XLII
62 - Gordon Brown and Art: Pertinax CLXVII
63 - James Bulger: Pertinax 2.XLI
64 - Burgundy
65 - Buses: Routemaster
66 - Butcher and Grill
67 - Cadet Forces: Pertinax XXXVI
68 - Cambridge Spies: Pertinax 03.xvii
69 - Cancer
70 - Prostate Cancer: Pertinax CLXXIX
71 - Cannon-Brookes
72 - Canterbury Hotel 2006
73 - The Car: Pertinax CVII and 02.XXXVII
74 - Car-Free Day: Pertinax 01.XXIX
75 - The Car is Here to Stay
76 - Car Tax and Pollution: Pertinax XXVII & LVIII
77 - Carbon Footprint
78 - Cars
79 - The Case of a Bloated Merc, a Chance Encounter and How a Size 6 Shoe Finally Exonerated Me
80 - Caviar: Pertinax 01.XXI
81 - Celebrity: Pertinax 02.i
82 - Celebrity (Anna Ford): Pertinax 01.xxvii
83 - Celibacy: Pertinax 02.xvi
84 - Champneys at Le Meridien, Piccadilly
85 - Channel Islands
86 - Channel Tunnel Link: Pertinax LXXXVII
87 - Prince Charles: Pertinax XV
88 - Cheddar Cheese
89 - Chez Bruce
90 - Chickens: Pertinax XXVI
91 - Child Labour: Pertinax XVIII
92 - Chinese Food
93 - Christchurch: Pertinax CXXXI
94 - Christianity: Pertinax CXXXIX
95 - Christie's and Sotheby's: Pertinax 01.xliii
96 - Christmas Holidays, 1993
97 - Christmas Humbug: Pertinax 02.liii and others
98 - Christmas Joys: Pertinax XXIX
99 - Christmas Past (And TV Present)
100 - Christmas Programmes on Television
101 - Christmas 1998: Pertinax CXXIX
102 - C. of E.: Pertinax VIII
103 - Church of England
104 - C. of E., Tories and C. of E.: Pertinax 02.xxxviii
105 - Circumcision
106 - Circumcision
107 - Circumcision: Pertinax CLXXXIII
108 - Class
109 - Clause 28: Pertinax 2.III
110 - Clinton: Pertinax CXII
111 - Clinton and the Cola Can: Pertinax CXIX
112 - Cliveden
113 - Colbys of California
114 - The College Hotel, Amsterdam
115 - Commonwealth: Pertinax LXXIII
116 - Complacency: Pertinax IV
117 - Computers
117a - Concerts
118 - Congestion Charges: Pertinax 01.xxiii & 03.vi
119 - Conscience Before Law: Pertinax XII
120 - Conscience in Voting: Pertinax XLIII
121 - Coren and Cricklewood
122 - Coronation Day
123 - Coronation Street Corrupted
124 - Corporal Punishment: Pertinax XXX
125 - Cosmetic Surgery
126 - Countryside March: Pertinax 02.XXXI
127 - Countryside Again: Pertinax 02.xxxii
128 - Cremation: Pertinax 01.XX
129 - Cricket: Pertinax X
130 - Crime and Patronage
131 - Crime and Punishment: Pertinax 03.xxvi
132 - Crossrail
133 - Cruelty to Animals
134 - Crutch
135 - Ministry for Culture: Pertinax LXI
136 - Culture Multiculturalism: Pertinax LXXI
137 - Multiculture: Pertinax 02.xiv
138 - Cultural Imperialism: Pertinax XL
138a - Daunt, James
139 - Days in this Country: Pertinax 2.XIV
140 - Death: Pertinax 03.xxvii
141 - Death by Television, 2011
142 - Mary Debbane
143 - Development: Pertinax 2.XXXIV
144 - Devolution: Pertinax LI
145 - Scottish Devolution: Pertinax LXVIII
146 - Diana
147 - Diana Memorial: Pertinax 02.xxv
148 - Diana's Garden: Pertinax LXXXIV & XCIX
149 - Diary, 2004
150 - Dinner Jackets
151 - Disabled: Pertinax XLII
152 - District Line: Pertinax CLXI
153 - D.I.Y.
154 - Doctors as Artists, 2008
155 - The Dome
156 - Dresden
157 - Drugs
158 - Dubrovnik: Pertinax 2.XXIV
159 - Easter
160 - Economy: Economic Foreboding: Pertinax CXVII
161 - Educated English: Pertinax LXXXVI
162 - Education
163 - Dearing Report Education: Pertinax LXVI
164 - Prince Edward: Pertinax CXXXII
165 - Eid-El-Kebir: Pertinax 2.VIII
166 - The Eighties
167 - The Eighties: The Line of Beauty, BBC TV 2006
168 - Election: Pertinax 01.iv
169 - Election: Mad March Hare: Pertinax 01.XVII
170 - Election Manifesto: Pertinax XXXIX
171 - Election: Vote With Conscience: Pertinax XLIII
172 - Election 2005 and the Arts
173 - Elections
174 - Electoral Commission: Pertinax 01.XIX
174a - The Elgin Marbles
175 - Elizabeth I: Pertinax 03.XVIII
175a - Elsie's Example
176 - English
176a - Enoch Powell
177 - The Euro
178 - Europe and the Referendum: Pertinax 03.xix
179 - Europe: Common Market: Pertinax I
180 - Euthanasia: Pertinax LXXIX
180a - The Ex-Soldier
181 - Faith Schools: Pertinax 02.x
182 - Farm Animal Welfare: Pertinax CLXX
183 - Farming Today: John Birt, BBC: Pertinax CXLVI
184 - Fashion
185 - Fat Duck, 2007
186 - Guy Fawkes: Pertinax 2.XL
187 - Fax Machines
187a - Febryuree
188 - Fergie
189 - Film Reviews
190 - Fish and Chips, 2008
190a - Fishing
190b - Flashback
191 - Flattery: Deborah Ross, Feature Writer of the Year: Pertinax CXLVI
192 - Trooper Kerry Fletcher: Pertinax CII
193 - Flood: Pertinax 2.IX
194 - Foolish Things
195 - Foot and Mouth
196 - Football
197 - Forced Marriages: Pertinax CLX
198 - Fox Hunting
199 - Town Hall Fraud: Pertinax LXXVI
200 - Frayling: Christopher
201 - French Chef
202 - Fuck: Pertinax 02.viii
203 - Fuck Trucks
204 - Fuel Protest: Pertinax 2.XXXVIII
205 - Funerals
207 - John Galliano, 2011
208 - Gay Marriage
209 - Geller: Uri
210 - Genetic Modifications: Pertinax CXLIX
211 - Global Warming: Pertinax 2.XXXII
211a - Gluttony
212 - Open Government: Pertinax CVI
212a - Grand Tour
213 - The Great British Bake Off
214 - Grosvenor House Antiques Fair
215 - The Habits of Economy
216 - Von Hagens: Gunther: Pertinax 02.IX
217 - Hague: William: Pertinax CLXXXII
217a - Hamilton, Sir William
218 - Hammersmith Bridge, Covent Garden: Pertinax XXXVIII
219 - Handel: Partenope: ENO 2008
219a - Harverson, Alan
220 - Hatchet
221 - Heart Attack, St. George's, 2004
222 - Heart Op.: Pertinax XXV
223 - Heat: Hottest Day of 2006
224 - Hellespont: The
225 - Heritage: Pertinax CXLVII
226 - High Tories and the Arts
227 - Hinduja and Vaz: Pertinax 01.vi
228 - Hippocratic Oath: Pertinax 02.iii
229 - History
230 - Holland Park Opera 2008
230a - Holroyd, Michael
231 - The Homeless
232 - Homosexuality
233 - Hoodies, Hug A
234 - Hospitals
235 - Housing: Pertinax CLXXX
236 - Immigration: Pertinax 03.iii
237 - Inaudibility
238 - Information
239 - Innocent Bystander
240 - Innovations
241 - Iraq
242 - I.R.A.
243 - Derry Irvine: Pertinax XCI
244 - Islam
245 - Istanbul
246 - James VI of Scotland
247 - Japan
248 - Japanese
249 - Joe
250 - Jongh: Nicholas de: Plague Over England, 2008
251 - Justice
252 - Kahraman Maras Girl
253 - Karlsruhe and Colmar
254 - Kemp: Ross
255 - Kensington Palace: Pertinax LXXVIII
256 - Kiftsgate: Sir
257 - King: Francis
258 - Kurdistan: Pertinax 03.ix
259 - Kurds
259a - Langan, Peter
260 - Languages
261 - Cardinal Hume: Peter Langan: Pertinax CLXIV
262 - Language: Freespeling, Freespeeking: Pertinax 02.xii
263 - Last Things
264 - Launceston Place
265 - Leper's Bell
266 - Lib Dems: Pertinax CLXXV
267 - Lipizzaner Horses
268 - Livingstone: David
269 - London
270 - The House of Lords
271 - Lottery
272 - Magpies: Pertinax XLIX
273 - Majorca
274 - Man of Steel
275 - Mandelson
276 - Manners
277 - Exploring Mars: Pertinax LXVII
278 - Mary Queen of Scots (BBC film 2004)
278a - Mascagni, Pietro
279 - Mastermind, December 2007
280 - Maths
281 - Mayor for London
282 - McDonald's
283 - The Media: Pertinax 02 XLII
284 - David Mellor
285 - Memorials
286 - Millenium
287 - Misc.
288 - Mobile Phones
289 - Modern English Usage
290 - Monarchy
291 - Money: Pertinax 2XXVII
292 - Moon Day: Pertinax CXLVII
293 - Moral Dilemmas: Pertinax 2.XXX
294 - Morality in Politics: Pertinax XXII
295 - Mozart: W.A.
296 - Mugging
297 - Multiculturalism: Pertinax LXXI
298 - Multiple Sclerosis: Pertinax CXXII
299 - National Health Service
300 - National Service
301 - New Year Resolutions
302 - Notting Hill Books
303 - Nuclear Power: Pertinax 01.xxiv
304 - Obscenity: Pertinax CXL
305 - Old Age
306 - Olympic Games: Pertinax 03.v
307 - On Moving: Pertinax CXXXVI
308 - On Not Knowing My Father
309 - Opera
310 - Oratory: Pertinax 03.xii
311 - Orwell
311a - Osborne, Charles
312 - Oysters
313 - Paedophilia: Pertinax CXVIII
314 - Pakistan: Pertinax CLXXVII
315 - Palestine
316 - Pam Ayres for Poet Laureate: Pertinax CXXV
317 - Paris
318 - Parking Wardens
319 - Parties
320 - Party Political Funding: Pertinax 02.xv
321 - Passports for Pets
322 - Petrol Blockade: Pertinax 2.XXXI
323 - Pigeons
324 - Plumbing
325 - Poetry: Pertinax CXXV
325a - Poisson en Gelee
326 - Political Correctitude: Pertinax XIII
327 - Politics: Pertinax XX
328 - Poll Tax
329 - Pollution
329a - Pompeii
330 - Population: Pertinax 01.xli
331 - Pornography
331a - Possessive Case
331b - Poverty: Pertinax CXLII
331c - Priapus: Pertinax CXIII
331d - Prison
331e - Prostitution: Pertinax VII
332 - Queer as Folk: Pertinax CXXXVII
333 - Rabbits: Pertinax CLXIX
334 - Railway Stations
335 - Record Visitor Numbers at Museums
336 - Refugees
337 - Religion in School: Pertinax CIV
338 - Resignation: Pertinax 2.XXVIII
339 - Restaurants
340 - Rice
341 - Richard Rogers: Pertinax XI
342 - Ritual Slaughter
343 - Rosenkavalier ENO 2008
344 - Royal Tournament
345 - RSPCA
346 - Rugger
346 - Rugger
347 - The Sadler Antiquities
348 - Samaritans
349 - John Sandoe
350 - The Sceptic: Pertinax CLXXXIV
350a - School Societies
351 - The Selfie Stick
352 - Semi Monde: My Fair Lady, National Theatre
353 - September 11: Pertinax 02.xxx
354 - Sex
355 - Shark: and Other Animals: Pertinax 2.XXXIX
356 - Ned Sherrin
357 - Shoplifting
358 - Shrove Tuesday: Pertinax LXXXIX
358a - Six Week Summer Breaks
359 - Skate
360 - Skiing
361 - Slavery and Mrs Robinson: Pertinax 01.xi
361a - Sleeping Rough
362 - Smoking
363 - Soundbite Classics
364 - South Africa
365 - South Bank
366 - Space: Pertinax 04.i
367 - Madam Speaker: Pertinax XXXVII
367a - Stark: Freya
367b - Sporting Memory
368 - The Stiff Upper Lip
369 - Stone of Destiny: Pertinax XXI
370 - Suicide
371 - The Sun: Pertinax 01.ix
372 - Supermarkets: Pertinax CXVI
373 - Surgery
374 - Sybils
375 - Tagore: Rabindranath
376 - Peter Tatchell: Pertinax CXXVII
377 - Taxi Drivers
378 - Taxing the Car: Pertinax CXXIV
379 - Tchaikovsky
380 - Teenage Pregnancies: Pertinax CLXIII
381 - Television
382 - Ten Men Who Changed the Course of European Painting
383 - Terrorism: Pertinax 01.XXX
384 - Thatcher
385 - HMS Thetis: Pertinax 2.XXIX
386 - Toast
386a - To whom shall I bequeath......
387 - Tourism
388 - Town Planning: Pertinax XXVIII
389 - Trafalgar
390 - Traffic
391 - Transport
392 - Travel
393 - Trees: London
394 - Trial
395 - Tunisia
396 - Turkey
397 - Ugly Italy
398 - Under Age Sex: Pertinax CLXXI
399 - Under the Hammer
400 - The Underground
401 - United Kingdom
401a - Urban Sprawl
402 - V&A: and Car: Pertinax CLXXVI
403 - Venice
404 - Vicious
405 - Vivisection
406 - Moral War OPED
407 - Wardens: Pertinax 01.XXVIII
408 - Water
409 - Wedding List
410 - A Weekend in the Country
411 - Welcome to Oxford Street
412 - Weser
413 - John White
414 - Wilde: Oscar
415 - Wildlife
416 - Prince William: Pertinax 01.xxv
417 - Wimbledon
418 - Wind in the Willows
418a - Franca Winkworth
419 - Wogan
420 - Women
421 - Words: Pertinax LXXXI
422 - World War II
423 - Writer's Block
424 - Yugoslavia
425 - Zionism
426 - Zoos
427 - 1996 Remembered
428 - 1999: Summing-up
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