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Monday, 8 January 2024

In case you forgot – he’s still on the loose and roaming free. Last spotted in Iowa and police are warning the public to steer clear. Make sure he goes nowhere near your children and, most important, your wallet.

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Saturday, 6 January 2024

That ‘gathering’ at Congress, Washington, three years ago on January 6: peaceful protest by law-abiding patriots? Or armed riot by thugs and morons? You decide. And beware the back-room and rather bright cynics who know Trump is a moron but could prove to be a very useful moron

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I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. For one thing I am Brit and our own political divide is between the Conservative Party and the La...
Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Why, perhaps, we have rather less to fear from Diaper Don than many so far suggest – he's yesterday's man

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Harold Macmillan described the greatest challenge to a politician as ‘Events, dear boy, events’ and Joseph Chamberlain warned that ‘In polit...
Thursday, 21 December 2023

Roast cygnet, guffawing farmers, a lodge dinner, thwarted evasion and three main courses – my night rubbing shoulders with the great and good of the City of Lincoln (before later retreating downhill to my rented room in a two-up, two-down)

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While ‘researching’ – the posh word for ‘googling’ – all and any info I can get on the Lincolnshire Standard Group (in Britain), I came acro...
Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Er, more writing (to prove I am as good as my word)

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Well, there you are, a man as good as his word and you can’t often say that. As I am sitting in the Costa Coffee branch on the Old Brompton ...
Monday, 11 December 2023

Ten days in France, now back home again

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Illats, SW France Not so long ago, I reported that I had finally finished ‘My Hemingway bollocks’, officially ‘The Hemingway enigma’, and th...
Tuesday, 28 November 2023

. . . so the dogs bark and the caravan moves on

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The other day I posted that I had finally completed all the work on a book I’m calling The Hemingway Enigma and that it is available to be ...
Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Now published and available on Amazon

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The book I’ve been slaving away on for the past few years, The Hemingway enigma: How did a middling writer achieve such global literary fame...
Monday, 9 October 2023

A schlepp and a half to a wedding in Hamburg, one which some might take in their stride. Me, I’d rather not too often, thank you very much. Too many early mornings

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It was off to Germany last Wednesday, for my youngest nephew’s wedding, and here are a few of the piccies I took. The journey was a tad tort...
Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Me, the complete bastard (and that is not intended as some kind of ironic joke)

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Today, on August 29, 1976, thus 47 years ago, I did one of the most selfish things I’ve ever done and about which to this day I feel ashamed...