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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, 29 April 2017
Will it snow on June 23, 2018? Who knows? I don’t and neither do you. But there might certainly be stormy weather ahead for the EU
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I’ve tried, I really have. I’ve twice posted I’ve taken photos - irrelevant to current events our what? Couldn’t be more irrelevant - report...
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Some more pics. Busy? Me?
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Update 19/05/17: I thought I might add that these pictures, and many of the other pictures I take and occasionally publish here, are intende...
Monday, 17 April 2017
Rather curious behavour from a self-appointed beacon of free speech. Make up your own minds
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This might be of interest to some of you. I think it speaks for itself. You do sometimes wonder what is going on at the Guardian. After I ...
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Friday, 14 April 2017
A few photos, just for the craic
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All of these were taken on my iPhone, then subsequently dicked around with to a greater or lesser extent, mainly cropping. PS Bearing in m...
Thursday, 6 April 2017
A short rant about Google and Facebook, and where to have a quiet smoke and malt in peace and quite and - crucially - in public
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In the spirit of modern man who will always bite the hand that feeds him (she doesn’t as she is busy elsewhere because he never lifts a fing...
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
One for the guys and gals in the KGB/FSB - special for my visitors from Russia
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Looking at that stats just no, I notice that there have been quite a few visits from Russia. And I mean quite a few. Quite why, I don't ...
Friday, 24 March 2017
Time for a little privacy: I shall be starting a new, wholly private blog (but see crucial note in italics below), which you will not be able to read. And the photography thing goes on
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I have to say that I have been a more regular blogger over the years than I have been recently, and I think I know why. When I started this ...
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Why I wish I had never grown up a ‘cradle Catholic’: it screwed up my relationships with women for life
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Over the years, I have come across news stories reporting along the lines that ‘people who have a religious faith’ are healthier and happier...
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Friday, 3 February 2017
When is censorship not censorship? Well, it would seem it’s when the saintly Guardian does the censoring. And want to pour the perfect glass of water? The Guardian tells you how
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The Guardian, often described as ‘a newspaper’ and ‘the conscience of the nation’ has many faces, not all of them admirable. I am a fan of i...
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
A self-indulgent moment. My excuse is that I dislike being called a liar. It's not that I don't lie - of course I do, we all do - but on this occasion I didn't
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My most recent post, a reproduction of an answer I gave on the Quora website, is to be followed by this one. Thinking about it, I am rather ...
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