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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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Thursday, 27 October 2011
Euro crisis: and yet more talk of fairies at the bottom of the garden
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I can’t think of anyone who likes being treated as a moron, yet apparently several of the most important bods in the European Commission see...
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Double standards: an explanation (with an example) for those who are still unfamiliar with the notion. And the MP and the blonde spy. Or is she really just a lass with loose knickers?
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There often seems to be a rather disturbing broken link between what many would like the world to be and what is actually the case. Here is ...
Sunday, 16 October 2011
A whinge, and I go out on a limb and come clean. Will it end in tears?
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Not written here for a week or two because quite simply I have nothing to write about and I don't feel in the mood for waffling or bulls...
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Friday, 7 October 2011
Let’s hear it for amorality, the only truly ethical position I know of. And a death to rival that of Di — St Steve has passed on
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The good news for some might have been that a certain Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-borm al Qaeda leader has been killed in a drone attack, f...
Friday, 30 September 2011
Out of office, Labour can be as wacky as it likes. And one for hacks to chew on, then spit out as worthless
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The standard view is that once out of government and into opposition, political parties are able to breathe a sigh of relief, stretch themse...
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
How a change of rules and new technology helped me realise I and rugger buggers can exist in the same universe. We don’t have to mix of course (which would be too much to ask of me)
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Here’s today’s question: what do Finland, Luxembourg, Vanuato, Norway, Monaco, Nigeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guam and Tahiti in common? G...
Monday, 26 September 2011
More blogs out there than sand grains on the beach - what is a boy to do to make his mark? And will the colonels return to Greece? That's what the CIA thinks (according to the rumour)
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Surprisingly enough, I am not the only bod conceited enough to record his thoughts in a blog, and furthermore there is any number of blogs o...
Friday, 23 September 2011
Essert-Roman. Day 334 - I waffle on a bit more about the euro, the Palestinians, the Third World and then call it a day to prepare for
la retour a casa
(or something, you get the drift).
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Essert-Romand, Haute-Savoie, France. Last day of this holiday here in sunny Essert-Romand and, as usual, rather wishing it wasn’t. I think ...
Thursday, 22 September 2011
How not to solve a crisis, any crisis really. And a gentle bit of tourist activity
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In one way, the euro crisis gets more bizarre by the hour. We are told that in order to qualify for the next handout of euro moolah to keep ...
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Join me on an exciting journey of discovery to sort out the bullshit from the bollocks (part 1)
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An occasional series (part 1) of those weasel words and phrases which insinuate their way into all our lives, but tend to mean rather less t...
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