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Book reviews
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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
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
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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Film reviews
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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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Sunday 23 January 2011
Why we should kill all poor people and save the planet. And Piers Morgan stands in for God as the lad himself goes on extended leave
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I’m a rather dull sort and subtlety tends to elude me. So you will understand why I am baffled that, on the one hand, the news this morning ...
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Wednesday 19 January 2011
Rational debate: thy name does not appear to be James Delingpole. But Talbot Church gets my vote
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It is fair to say that in the long run everything is balanced out, although I am obliged to add that, as John Maynard Keynes pointed out, ‘i...
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Monday 17 January 2011
Are hedge funds listening to the right Chinese whispers. And who exactly are the experts? And Blair is back in the limelight, the slimy little toad
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Mention hedge funds to most people, and you could well have them spitting blood. The conventional – and ill-informed wisdom – is that those ...
Saturday 15 January 2011
Euro: a slow-motion car crash. And are Nicolas Cage and his senses going their separate ways? Quick, more holy water!
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The wise old Economist (which I think of as a magazine, but which insists on calling itself a ‘newspaper’) the week leads: The euro crisis: ...
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Belgium next for the EU chop, strong-arming Croatia and why Hungarian pseudo-Fascists could be Brussel's next headache
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Now that the dust has settled on Ireland’s bond crisis and the feelgood sentiment of Christmas and New Year have lulled us all into think th...
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Saturday 8 January 2011
Democracy Russian-style or why bullshit reigns supreme and Putin's indisputably the man. And a picture in Lederhosen
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I’m sure we’ll all familiar with the habit of ignoring a bad symptom and hoping it is just a passing glitch and will, in time, right itself....
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Friday 7 January 2011
You can never have too many mobile phones or laptops: discuss. And why I dislike bad losers
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I am the proud owner of three laptops. In fact, I have a fourth laptop in the house, but that belongs to work and is set up for me to be abl...
Tuesday 4 January 2011
Synchronicity, or another way of talking bollocks. What, you were just thinking that, too? Spooky!
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There are many out there who are in thrall to coincidence and ‘synchronicity’, which is a kind of coincidence for new age freaks. If I have ...
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Monday 3 January 2011
Ah, the joy of a free Press: which can (apparently) hang, draw and quarter us at will; Estonia goes for broke - it would seem literally
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Like most countries, England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Scotland has its own legal system) try to ensure that those who come before its co...
Saturday 1 January 2011
Sicily, The Leopard, food, Burt Lancaster, Visconti and was Dirk Bogarde merely ham or just a very bad actor?
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There was an interesting programme on TV the other night (and I watched it on iPlayer) by the Italian food bod Antonio Carlucci about the no...
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