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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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Saturday, 24 November 2012
A father writes (though not this one), and parents the world over might understand
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It is by no means the world-stopping story of the month and most certainly few people living outside Britain will have heard about it and ev...
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Let’s hear it for the Fourth Estate or why Kim, Kourtney, Jen, Em and Jess are keeping democracy alive. Then there’s the rekindling of a love affair: me and Don
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Here are some spiffing items of news you might well have missed over these past few days. But be reassured that throughout the Western world...
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...
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