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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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Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Today’s dare: patronise a Scotsman, then run for your life. As for the Union: keep it – better the devil you know. And it’s official: winter can sometimes be a bit chilly and we might even get a bit of snow (but probably only on high ground)
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I am an Englishman who spent four happy years at Dundee University in the late Sixties and early Seventies and who came to like, admire and ...
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Amazing! Or not. And the latest wheeze ‘to save the euro’ is launched to universal derision
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Two weeks ago tomorrow (and try translating that into Italian. I could never get the hang of the future past, or whatever boring grammarians...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
How to alienate people. Simple: praise one Margaret Thatcher
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Off to see The Iron Lady some tomorrow or Friday with my stepmother, who rarely gets out. There have been mixed reactions to the film, inclu...
Monday, 23 January 2012
The Mitt, Newt, Rick and Ron Show - the current Yankee response to good old English cricket
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For certain kind of Englishman (of which, obviously, I am one) one of the better spectator sports around is the quadrennial hoopla the Unite...
Friday, 20 January 2012
And old fart writes: ‘Euthanasia? Over my dead body!’ And sweet Mandy gets yet another look in. If you’re reading this, Mandy, ask me out
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Having reached the venerable age of 114, I’m bound to meet the truth halfway and admit that I am - my good looks notwithstanding - no spring...
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Cameron starts latest England v. Scotland cricket Test with a googly, Salmond blocks. Surely it's now time for tea? As for those damn, nasty Yankees/Ruskies . . . (delete as applicable and where your prejudice takes you)
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I am now way into my 90th decade but it is only in the past three or four years that I can claim even to have started understanding the game...
Saturday, 31 December 2011
My New Year message: Smile (you really have no other choice)
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It was only by chance that I came across the three pictures below, but I do feel we should take a hint and see in the New Year with a smile....
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Don’t ignore life’s modest glories: let’s hear it for toast!
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It isn’t often that I can report encouraging developments in my life given that a regular pastime at my age is deciding what hymns I should ...
Monday, 26 December 2011
Irony’s dead? Yeah, right! Actually, do yourself a favour and admit to yourself you’re just another clone
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Well actually, I rather think that irony is very dead. And that is in itself an irony. Because these days everyone seems to take a ‘yeah, ri...
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Who’s going to win: Vlad or the people? Or will it be neither? And don’t bother making plans beyond December 21, 2012 - the Mayans tell us it’s just not worth it
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From where I am now sitting in deepest, most peaceful North Cornwall, Lord knows how the problems in Russia are going to be resolved. Accord...
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