Monthly Archives: February 2012
Never Buy The S*n
I have been reading and enjoying Steven Baxter’s excellent ‘Musings Of A Monkey’ this weekend. In a chapter he describes as hastily cobbled together, but which I would call a very astute summary of the phone hacking scandal of Summer … Continue reading
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Top 5 doomed literary loves
Perhaps it isn’t in keeping with the spirit of the season, as everyone loves a happy ever after, but sometimes it has to be acknowledged that the really great literature lives elsewhere. With that in mind, and with Valentine’s wishes … Continue reading
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Bruise, a drama by John Maguire
Yet another reason for me to be missing Liverpool! If you are fortunate enough to be in my home town at the end of February, don’t miss the latest from brilliant local playwright John Maguire… Love, Lust, Deception, Rejection. BRUISE … Continue reading
Filed under The Golden Country
FiveBooks: Robert Cottrell
ten minutes hate brings you Sunday reading from the excellent FiveBooks feature on the Browser website, featuring Robert Cottrell’s choice of writing about journalism. As a former worker on the physical Fleet Street, rather than the metaphorical one, I can … Continue reading
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Shivers of fear
Palms feeling clammy and drenched, pulse doing cartwheels, heart close to my teeth, fighting an urge to run back from the edge towards all that is familiar. That is just from sitting at my desk looking at these photographs of … Continue reading
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Kicking the crutch
Bankers, the targets for so much vilification, are not usually noted as great philosophers. But perhaps they have been judged unfairly if this observation, by former Deutsche Bank CEO Hilmar Kopper, is true: As a banker, you have no lack … Continue reading
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Ishinomaki – Then and Now
Recently arrived back in Tokyo from another trip North and still attempting to unravel my answers to the natural question of ‘how was it?’ Perhaps this will help. The following is a documentary from Paul Johannessen, which interviews tsunami survivors … Continue reading
