Friday, 31 January 2020

a song for europe (les chiens wouaw dans la nuit)

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It’s fun (for middle-aged values of fun; turns out I’m better at being nearly fifty than I was at being nearly thirty or nearly twenty - an...
Wednesday, 1 January 2020

some things just stick in your mind [short story]

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This is the time of year when we reflect on is, was, will be and might have been - so, in that spirit, here's my time travel story, ...

the end of a decade

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"Sometimes I see how the brave new world arrives..."  In terms of its popular music, the 1970s was a by turns entropic and hyp...

public service announcement

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Sunday, 29 December 2019

and soon it will be morning: appreciating ‘cats’ as theodor adorno might’ve

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( This article is around 2,000 words long, so may take you 8 or 10 minutes to read). I saw Cats  the other day with my family. Yeah, I kno...
Thursday, 26 December 2019

happier simpler times

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This is a good time of year for visiting places where the veil separating earth and heaven seems thin, attenuated - and for reflecting back ...
Sunday, 1 December 2019

pray as you go

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So I've diarrised films seen and books read as per usual; I've also been finding the prayer app 'Pray As You Go' (avai...

the socialism of fools

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Let's be frank with ourselves: some of our friends on the Left, present company excepted, are idiots. Anyone who thinks that anti-semiti...

scenes of chemical life: george eliot, nick kent and other writers i've read, re-read, half-read etc

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Lately I've been reading about communism (' fully automated luxury ' variety: well, it's a provocation wrapped in a single p...