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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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Monday, 29 April 2013
Here’s a thing: every week The Doctor saves the world in 45 minutes. No more, no less. Marvellous. And whatever happened to Norries?
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Here’s a paradox: when you’re 10, 12, 13 or 15, you watch Doctor Who and it all makes perfect sense. Well, he’s a clever one! you think. The...
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Germany’s ditch-the-euro Afd more popular than God! Scores 113pc in global survey! Watch out Angela! And the Government finally takes action on the growing epidemic of self-importance
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The trouble with surveys is that at one and the same time they can be enormously misleading, highly informative, hugely subjective and gener...
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Friday, 26 April 2013
Don't ever think you're clever, ever. Ever.
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I don’t think I have self-esteem problems (but nor am I, I hope, conceited) but one ‘moral’ lesson I have tried to teach my children is that...
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Thursday, 25 April 2013
Thin-skinned or what? I am banned from a blog called 'The Slog' for not cheering loudly enough
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It is odd how thin-skinned those folk are who like to set themselves up as our conscience but do not necessarily get the universal acclaim t...
Monday, 22 April 2013
The question on everyone’s lips: did they? (No, not shag – discuss Leveson business! Some people!)
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A short, rather ridiculous statement which the Guardian carried, but which I’m sure has appeared elsewhere (i.e. that I saw it in the Guardi...
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Saturday, 20 April 2013
A warm welcome to all Russian visitors (who seem to be increasing in numbers) - Теплый прием всем российским посетителям (кто, кажется, увеличиваются в числах)
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Я, кажется, получаем много посетителей из России сегодня, таким образом я думал, что я мог бы поздороваться. Я не знаю то, что привлекает их...
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
In which our hero demonstrates beyond doubt that we often have far too much time on our hands. And things aren’t looking too bright for one of Mr Putin’s more high-profile critics. My advice? Avoid the tea
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This is something I cobbled together after a trip to Spain last year. I rather like it, but that doesn’t mean that you will. Suck it and...
Monday, 15 April 2013
Does Germany now really have an alternative to the standard euro bollocks? Who knows? But a fanfare please for . . .
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Well, the die has been cast and it now only remains to be seen whether the much-trailed Alternative für Deutschland will become a political ...
Friday, 12 April 2013
It’s true is it? It’s a fact is it? How do you know? Read it on the web, did you? Well, must be true then, eh? Whales can sing Dixie through their bottoms? Who’d have thought it? On the web was it? Funny what you find out.
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I read somewhere recently that when the printing press was invented, those who called the shots were extremely worried that the end of the w...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Ain’t no one can hate as well as the Left even when they have no idea what they’re hating. Bring back the Nazis – at least they knew how to march and could organise a real bonfire
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Prominent on today’s Daily Mail (page 6, Wednesday, April 10) are a number of comments by various folk who would most certainly regard thems...
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