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“... They had a vegetable garden, a hog pen, a chicken coop. Redding’s most recent biographer, Jonathan Gould, says that Otis (14 at the time) ‘felt a special disdain for anything that smacked of “country”, flatly refusing to wear the overalls his parents bought for him’. Four years later, the house burned to the ground and the Reddings moved ...”

“... The issue​ of evolutionary inevitability was brought sharply into focus by the late Stephen Jay Gould in his book Wonderful Life (1989). Gould discussed the bizarre fossils uncovered by the Cambridge palaeontologist Simon Conway Morris in an outcrop of rock in the Canadian Rockies, known as the Burgess Shale ...”

“... of Good Hope – also lacked them. It was only when Darwin delivered his bird collections to John Gould, the Zoological Society’s eminent ornithologist, that things began to happen. In early March 1837, five months after returning to England and nearly eighteen months after leaving the Galapagos, Darwin met with Gould to ...”

“... constituency disappearing with a prostitute for five minutes or so. She recognises Raymond Gould and turns to blackmail once the business is done. Gould refuses to deal and she takes her tale to Mike Molloy, a Mirror reporter. Molloy confronts Gould, who refers him to his ...”

“... wavering, the Tyneham campaigners played their last card. Lord Fenner Brockway took John Gould, a road-sweeper who was already among Tyneham’s most symbolised villagers, to 10 Downing Street. A life-long member of the Labour Party, Gould presented Harold Wilson with a wreath made of ivy picked from the ruins of ...”

“... his rapid remarriage to an Italian and a Papist ‘who kept an eating house in London’, led Lady Gould, the children’s grandmother, to sue Fielding père for custody of the children and for the ‘right to what was left of the farm at East Stour’. The father counter-attacked. His witness, the nursery maid Frances Barber, declared that the children were ...”

“... Loop. How quickly Blair’s pose became exposed. As early as June 2000, his pet pollster Philip Gould was reporting their focus groups as saying that ‘TB is not believed to be real. He lacks conviction, he is all spin and presentation.’ It is a bitter irony that this image of him became fixed in the public mind just as he was beginning to embark on some ...”

“... was the one labelled “everyone is at risk.”’ An obvious fact was forever being obscured. As Jonathan Mann, the founder of the Word Health Organisation’s Global Programme on Aids, told a London audience in 1993, the spread of HIV is strongly determined by an identifiable societal risk factor … the scope, intensity and nature of discrimination which ...”