Sunday, 19 April 2020

ropes, planks, sensible shoes: disaster and resilience in the movie 'signs' and in the world at large

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Introduction (2020) If you think you've read this article before, perhaps you have. It was published under my given name (the one Mum...
Monday, 13 April 2020

last and first zoom meetings [short story]

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Zoom meetings became popular during the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020-1. The hope of those participating in them - the hope of eventually ...

knockers and flaps, OR seediness as a treasured quality of our national life

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On Wednesday while taking my permitted daily walk, I saw a poster on someone's front door which said, " STAY AWAY! I am trying to...
Monday, 3 February 2020

two cheers for the EU (oh ian mcewan)

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I’ve noticed over the years that every time something happens – 9/11, Iraq War, swine flu, Trump – the Guardian tells us what Ian McEwan th...
Saturday, 1 February 2020

bristol, graveyard of ambition

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The reasons why this Spectator writer doesn't like Bristol suggest the reasons why right- (i.e. left-) thinking people should. See ...
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, ...