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Books
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The House Of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
Tender Is The Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The English Press: A History – Jeremy Black
We Don’t Know Ourselves – Fintan O’Toole
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
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
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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Films
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The House Of Mirth
Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Saturday, 12 July 2025
In which, inadvertently, I create my very own mob
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Many years ago, I organised a disruptive political protest and learned something about an odd aspect of human behaviour. Perhaps I should tr...
Thursday, 3 July 2025
How Donny's 'big, beautiful bill' could help finance his very own 'secret police'. Paranoia? Let's hope so, but perhaps Ernst Röhm and his SA pals might have been a little more paranoid when they took off for a relaxing mid-summer weekend break in Bavaria 91 years ago . . .
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Here’s a scenario which might well be filed under ‘conspiracy theory’ by all sane and decent people, and probably should be, but is actually...
Sunday, 15 June 2025
Happy birthday, Donny!
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Wednesday, 21 May 2025
A little more inconsequential bollocks and a one-off in as far as it is semi-personal, about writing and disguising art (and I trust that won’t put you off)
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A while ago, I started a second blog so that I could keep it private and where I could post stuff I would not want to make public, such as m...
Monday, 19 May 2025
Trump and his gang of no-hopers are still cretins, but here is the first post this year that is not about the Desperate Don and his stupidity, but about short trip of Canterbury to see an old friend and two more recent friends
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Canterbury, May 17-19 I have rather neglected this blog and have post only five times since the turn of the year, four times in February and...
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
A new American civil war? Can it happen? Will it happen? Who knows, but it ain't looking encouraging for the Yanks. Mind they were stupid enough to elect a rapist fraudulent felon who paints his face orange every morning
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Just posted this on Twitter (‘X’), and it has finally sunk in that Trump (and Musk) in his extremely addled way really does want to do away ...
Monday, 24 February 2025
East and West and never the twain shall meet – the Romans cottoned on fast, so what’s the future for a country so divided and with a rising far-right party scoring well in a federal election?
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There’s a very good overview of the 2,000 years of the part of central Europe which we now know as German and Austria called The Shortest Hi...
Saturday, 22 February 2025
Q: What is the difference between a clueless, cack-handed twat and Donald Trump? A: There isn't one
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Proving again that he has van Gogh’s ear for music, Donald Trump has once more shot himself in the foot: piss of the Democrats if you like, ...
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
America, your country is now a fucking mess so do something – we don’t want the rest of the world to be dragged into your lunacy!
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I have no idea whether you now reading this are from Asia, Europe, Africa, an Aussie or an American. And if you are American, I have not ide...
Sunday, 5 January 2025
Think 2024 was bad? Breaking news: 2025 could get a lot worse if Lady Luck doesn’t smile on the world. And from what I hear Lady Luck has taken the decade off
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There was a comment by someone or other in one of the Times Radio interviews (many of which are available on Youtube) which, for me, sums u...
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