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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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Saturday 7 May 2011
America: a clarification, and one which is, I think, necessary. Plus all the latest from the ‘vote of the century’: Britain rejects out of hand any buggering about with how we do things and give our progressives a flea in their ear (and not before time)
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In view of what I wrote about about the death of Bin Laden, the demonstration of triumphalism, how clues as to his whereabouts were indirect...
Wednesday 4 May 2011
Only goes to show that a teensy bit of torture isn't that bad, doesn't it? I mean, come on, let's not be namby-pamby, we got him, didn't we?
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Let me be unfashionable for a change. There are reports – and I stress that I can only go on what read and hear in the media – that the wate...
Monday 2 May 2011
Osama Bin Laden's death: my two ha'porth worth. And was he celebrating Arsenal's victory over United on Sunday when they shot him?
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No self-respecting, self-important blogger can let the assassination of Osama Bin Laden go by without spending even just a minute or two pon...
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Tuesday 26 April 2011
Oh, Andrew, what a fine set of principles.
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A while ago I mentioned so-called super-injunctions taken out by those with the necessary loot to hire expensive lawyers, which not only den...
Saturday 23 April 2011
My Easter message
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I am a cradle Catholic which means, as only cradle Catholics will understand, that as far as the RC church is concerned they have got me for...
Thursday 21 April 2011
The spell is broken: Auntie BBC hints that all might not be well with the EU
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There was an interesting item on Radio 4’s Today this morning, interesting not necessarily in what it said, but that in a way it was a first...
Monday 18 April 2011
Strange but true - I have accidentally jumped on the iPad bandwagon: I got one I didn't even want. And is Turkey getting even more authoritarian?
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Through what can only be called stupidity and misfortune, I am now the owner of an iPad. But before I am charged with jumping on an ibandwag...
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Newspapers insensitive? Rubbish! Did the Kennedys get tough to preserve the fairy tale? And two reasons why I might be thought of as quite stupid
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In my noble, indeed sacred, quest to encourage greater understanding between newspapers and the rest of the world and counter the widespread...
Thursday 7 April 2011
Champagne cocktails and an unexpected spring pleasure as we recall the long gone glory days of a Fleet Street paper now in its death throes
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The Germans say Vorfreude ist die schönste Freude (‘anticipating pleasure is the nicest pleasure’, though the German it’s a damn sight snapp...
Friday 1 April 2011
Houses that look like Adolf Hitler: why Britain will always remain a bastion of freedom
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It is not every day that the Press distinguishes itself. Always keen to justify its existence by reminding us of the ‘fourth estate’s’ funda...
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