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Saturday, 27 October 2012

Four pieces of music you might enjoy (and absolutey nothing about the bloody euro, the EU or anything of that ilk)

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It’s odd when you hear a piece of music and, although you have never heard it before, you seem to know it, it seems to be far more familiar ...
Thursday, 25 October 2012

In which, for no very good reason I can make out, I go to bed without supper...

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Well, an interesting 24 hours which at the point of writing - 8.45pm - is soon to culminate with me going to bed with no supper. Not that I ...
Saturday, 20 October 2012

A great day for fascists: the golden dawn has arrived. It’s not such a great day for the rest of us. Nobel Peace Prize anyone?

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Most of my knowledge is of the scavenged variety. It consists of tidbits and scraps gathered here and there which can then be stitched toget...
Monday, 15 October 2012

Worst news of the week: the Stones aren’t just not yet dead, they are going to play some more gigs. Can it get worse? No, not really – I’m not a fan of twats like Jagger

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Quite possibly the worst news of the day is that The Rolling Stones are due to play a series of gigs in London and the U.S. The usual crap P...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012

In which I introduce a grateful world to my two new enthusiasms: Pink and Boardwalk Empire

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Well, it’s all happening: Syria is shooting at Turkey, Turkey is shooting back at Syria, Angela Merkel is in Athens, apparently expressing h...
Sunday, 30 September 2012

Oh, the fun to be had in wallowing in filth and vomit. Or why the West is disappearing up its own arse, perhaps mainly because we have had it so good for rather too long

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Many Muslims often make the point that, with its emphasis on ‘rights’, its insistence that we should be ‘non-judgmental’, its almost slavi...
Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Another civil war in Spain? Too much Spanish Burgundy or has he finally lost his marbles? It could never happen! No, of course, not, and nor could the massacre at Srebrenica

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The obvious question is just how long can it all go one, and by ‘it’ I mean, of course, what might well now be regarded as the ‘phoney war’ ...
Friday, 21 September 2012

Hypocrisy comes in many forms - try the variety favoured by (some) Muslims

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Forget, if you can, that Peaches Geldoff has recently taken her son Astala and dog Parpy for a stroll and that Kourteny Kardashian has alrea...
Thursday, 20 September 2012

Welcome to the new look, as unexpected for you as it was for me — but needs must and I’m making the best of a bad job. Then there’s Disney’s take on a Cathar castle

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First things first: You might think ‘oh, what a nice chap, he’s redesigned his blog to make us feel more welcome, more valued, to show us th...
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

It’s over far too soon, but at least I can get outraged by greedy opticians, who don’t just want my money, but, apparently, my blood. And a crucial decision must be made: do I move with the times and apply super-duper whizz-bang 3D dynamic styles to this ’ere blog?

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Caunes-Minervois, Languedoc (last day but one) Well, the truth is out: brother Mark, who had his early upbringing and education until the ...