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Friday, 25 March 2016

Like a bore at a party ‘Brexit’ is the bane of our lives. Roll on June 23 after which we will know whether it’ll be terminal cancer or a debilitating stroke

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It’s fair to say we’ve all met a boring person or, indeed, several. I always recall one in particular, a reporter on the Birmingham Evening ...
Friday, 18 March 2016

Cars, especially first cars, and chips off the old block: I hope my daughter isn’t as stupid as me

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About six or seven years in this blog when it was still a thing of fresh, juvenile enthusiasm and I hadn’t resorted to writing potted resumé...
Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Will the last hack to leave the industry please put out the lights? And Germany’s AfD might be making strides, but I shouldn’t fear the jackboot quite yet

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I watched Spotlight the other night and liked it. So did the Oscars committee and awarded it Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It i...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

Ignore this, if you like, just having a general whinge about this sodding itching which has beset me for these past five months

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I’ve got to say very little has been on my mind except looking forward to the day when this perpetual torso itching goes away. Writing it he...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

You want a hero, look elsewhere

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I’ve long suspected that I would never have made hero (the past transitional conjunctive tense or whatever it is is appropriate here because...
Saturday, 27 February 2016

What makes a short break in Rome not the pleasure it should be? Sodding chronic hives. At least Italy might win today’s Six Nations match against Scotland

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Rome I’m here nominally for tomorrow’s Italy v Scotland Six Nations match at the Olympic Stadium, but actually the game, although I am loo...
Friday, 5 February 2016

Should we stay or should we go? Who knows and, to be frank, who cares? The way things are there might in time no longer be an EU to leave

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My apologies to anyone who happens to come across this blog - or even makes a point of visiting it - and who is from South Korea, Australia...
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Saturday, 30 January 2016

All good things come in threes, and as this post is about harmony - well, roughly - here is a third collection of tracks you might like, all vaguely related

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As I’ve said before, these soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Expl...
Thursday, 28 January 2016

A bit more jazz for those who like that kind of thing. And those who don’t are banned from this blog for a week.

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These soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Explorer, Chrome and Fire...
Friday, 22 January 2016

New music and one way to come across it (though I'm sure there are many others. And if you have any jazz you can recommend, get in touch). Некоторые джаз для моих русских друзей.

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These soundfiles should play fine on your Mac using Safari, Chrome and Firefox, and on a Windows PC using Internet Explorer, Chrome and Fire...