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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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Thursday 22 October 2009
A third laptop (which is something of a luxury), a second set of the same faults on my first laptop, and a missed opportunity to be unethical
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Having sailed through rather choppy waters these past few days, this blog is pleased to announce that the following topic is neither controv...
Wednesday 21 October 2009
A kindly word of warning to all bloggers
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It is perhaps pertinent to point out that what a blogger records on his or her blog is, courtesy of the net — once known as the world wide w...
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Saturday 17 October 2009
How the Left works: a discursive and rather long analysis of Marxist/Leninist strategy with a personal example (or something like that)
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What is now more than 20 years ago, and it shocks me a little to say so as in some ways it seems far more recent, I lived and worked in Card...
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Sounds like a problem to me
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Some words for you: please read them and reflect. Their meanings have nothing to do with the point I shall make: row, object, tear, produce,...
Cars, men's men, boys' talk, more cars and the desirability of not gettting into debt
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Posting on this blog virtually every five minutes while I was on holiday has rather given me a taste for it, so in the spirit of the great B...
Friday 16 October 2009
Experts: are some of them born losers?
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On another topic entirely. I have been a keen backgammon player ever since I learnt to play more than 20 years ago, and when I bought a seco...
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A rather more personal entry than usual
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A joke-free, far more personal entry this morning, and I should add that I am rather glad that this blog is occasionally read by at least tw...
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Sunday 11 October 2009
The Nobel Peace Prize, and my reaction were I informed I had won it
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This has nothing to do with me personally, but I thought I might record how baffled I am that Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace ...
Wednesday 7 October 2009
The curse of The Nerds, whether left-liberal, Yankee smug or any other kind. But never underestimate them - ever
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What is it with nerds? We've all met them - passionate committee members, rule sticklers when playing any sort of game, often humourless...
Thursday 1 October 2009
One last throw of the dice to see if I can't yet filch one of those Arts Council sinecures
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As title. I feel that the name Sir Patrick Powell, knighted for services to the arts and crafts and what bloody else is a damn sight more ev...
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