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Most people would look at the three words of the title and conclude I am referring to one of the biggest holidays of the year – Christmas. However, we’re not quite there yet, though time is moving quickly.

For any mother, leaving a child at home to go to work is a heart-wrenching decision.

As debate about how to provide for the needs of unhoused Pittsfield, Massachusetts residents continues, members of that community addressed the city council Tuesday night.

(1916) served an explicit role as propaganda and recruitment tools, often glorifying the sacrifice, mateship and heroism of the young men who enlisted. Some, like the Boer war-era Sons of Australia , predate the commonwealth, with a call to patriotism that came firmly couched in the language of empire: (“Sons of Australia / Are your pulses thrilling? / Thrilling at the chance to thrash / Your empire’s foes”) . But not all wartime songwriters viewed Australia’s role in a contest of Europ...

David Bowie in 1996; he passed away 20 years later, five years ago today Credit: Sportsphoto Throughout the Seventies, David Bowie did not have fans. He had acolytes, disciples, obsessives; teens and 20-somethings who would buy every record, watch every move, copy his clothes, his haircuts – the upswept flaming bush of Ziggy Stardust, the soul-boy quiff of Young Americans – his attitude. Tony, a student friend of mine, idolised David Bowie. Back in the late Sixties, before the world at larg...