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Sunday 27 October 2024

This ‘cradle-Catholic’ sounds off about dreary, dreary ‘good news’

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I’m sitting here in the kitchen at my aunt’s in deepest, darkest Gascony just about to have my second bowel of milky coffee, having risen fr...
Tuesday 15 October 2024

Shysters anonymous, or how in just over three decades the ‘information superhighway’, the ‘democratising force to end all ‘democratising force’ has succumbed to simply parting you from your money. Greed – as always – regains the throne

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I have been very lax about posting to this blog and intend to try to do so more regularly. There is much I want to comment on, not least the...
Thursday 8 February 2024

Introducing one Murray Sayle, war correspondent and in newspaper terms very much the real deal. Sadly, Sayle was not quite as good as a novelist. Still . . . Then there's when he quit his job on the Sunday Times for telling the truth but the paper taking the easy way out and spiking his story

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One of this world’s many clichés is that ‘everyone has a book in them’, although unhelpfully that observation can be understood in two, rath...
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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 ...