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Saturday, 28 December 2019

You ain’t seen nothing yet, sunshine, so do me a favour and fuck nostalgia

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I’ve not posted here for a while and feel my crown slipping, so I thought I might add a few anecdotes about newspapers and folk I have known...
Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Does Britain want to die of liver cancer or bowel cancer? Neither, as it happens, but that is our choice tomorrow when we go to the polls

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It will be of little interest to anyone living outside the Western Hemisphere because many living there have other concerns (and however muc...
Friday, 6 December 2019

Letter (email) to my daughter

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By chance, I came across this, a ‘letter’ (actually an email) to my daughter when she was at the end of her first year at university and unh...
Thursday, 5 December 2019

On the road again, again

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Travelodge – Hellingly Eastbourne, East Sussex It’s a bit of a stretch entitling this entry ‘On the road again’ as it involves neither amp...
Saturday, 2 November 2019

To publish posthumously and squeeze a bit more money for the estate of the writer and his publisher (even though the work might be crap) or not? Decisions, decisions, though as it turned out not a difficult one for Charles Scribner’s Sons, of New York, publishers to the gentry

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Below are around 400 words from Joan Didion’s piece — the opening — on the practice of publishing Hemingway’s work posthumously. It appeared...
Monday, 28 October 2019

In which I admit to slightly odd behaviour (and later in the day put the boot in Honest Ernest yet again)

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It really is bloody odd. Every day since I’ve retired I’ve been conscious of ‘using my time’ and not wasting it. The silly thing is, though,...
Saturday, 26 October 2019

Crisis? What crisis? This one, matey, this one!

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We here in Britain are stuck in a truly bizarre age: for once the observation that ‘the country is split’ isn’t actually just a silly, self-...
Thursday, 10 October 2019

The Brexit farce continues and it’s not going to end well . . .

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I am conscious that I haven’t posted here for a while and there’s reason: the only thing I would like to write about at present (not having ...
Thursday, 19 September 2019

On the road . . .

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Travelodge - Retford Markham Moor Off on my travels for a day or two, this time to visit the Jorvik Vikin Centre in York which I did yeste...