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Book reviews
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The English Press: A History – Jeremy Black
We Don’t Know Ourselves – Fintan O’Toole
Nobody Hurt In Small Earthquake – Michael Green
Towards The End Of The Morning – Michael Frayn
A Crooked Sixpence – Murray Sayle
Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs
The Group – Mary McCarthy
Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia – Paul Willetts
The Daughter Of Time – Josephine Tey
The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life Of Ernest Hemingway – Richard Bradford
The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
Hemingway: a biography — Mary Dearborn
The True Gen - Denis Brian
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Running With Bulls — Valerie Hemingway
The Sea — John Banville
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
The Colour — Rose Tremain
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Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Wednesday, 26 February 2025
A new American civil war? Can it happen? Will it happen? Who knows, but it ain't looking encouraging for the Yanks. Mind they were stupid enough to elect a rapist fraudulent felon who paints his face orange every morning
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Just posted this on Twitter (‘X’), and it has finally sunk in that Trump (and Musk) in his extremely addled way really does want to do away ...
Monday, 24 February 2025
East and West and never the twain shall meet – the Romans cottoned on fast, so what’s the future for a country so divided and with a rising far-right party scoring well in a federal election?
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There’s a very good overview of the 2,000 years of the part of central Europe which we now know as German and Austria called The Shortest Hi...
Saturday, 22 February 2025
Q: What is the difference between a clueless, cack-handed twat and Donald Trump? A: There isn't one
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Proving again that he has van Gogh’s ear for music, Donald Trump has once more shot himself in the foot: piss of the Democrats if you like, ...
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
America, your country is now a fucking mess so do something – we don’t want the rest of the world to be dragged into your lunacy!
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I have no idea whether you now reading this are from Asia, Europe, Africa, an Aussie or an American. And if you are American, I have not ide...
Sunday, 5 January 2025
Think 2024 was bad? Breaking news: 2025 could get a lot worse if Lady Luck doesn’t smile on the world. And from what I hear Lady Luck has taken the decade off
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There was a comment by someone or other in one of the Times Radio interviews (many of which are available on Youtube) which, for me, sums u...
Saturday, 28 December 2024
Well, well, well – a genius writes! Shame that it took until 2135 for the fucking world to catch on (by which time he was long dead)! And it’s not as though I didn’t do my fucking best to alert them! Fuckwits! What CAN you do!
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In the previous post I suggested that, broadly, those who insist they ‘write only for themselves’ are talking bollocks. However, despite my ...
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Face it, America, you have finally fucked yourself
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I am baffled. Although I am ‘merely’ a Brit and some might feel I am not at all qualified to criticise America, I’m going to do so anyway. B...
Thursday, 7 November 2024
This post is dedicated to reader John OC and the millions of other MAGA morons who have fallen for Donald J Trump’s bullshit
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Yesterday I posted a dire warning about what Donny Trump’s presidency will mean not just for America but, given the size of of the US econom...
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Thanks a bunch, America, you have now fucked up the world for the rest of us: are you guys even sane? Trump? This is not a party trick? Dear soul!
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Although I’m merely an interested Brit addressing Americans, PLEASE be assured that despite what some might think when reading the following...
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Friday, 1 November 2024
Might a new American civil war break out – irrespective of who wins on Novmeber 5, 2024? Guess who's the wild card? What the Orange Jesus himeself, Donald John Trump
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Over the years I have joked about my age, pretending to be over 90 or even over 100. Were someone else to do that, this cynic would suggest ...
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