Wednesday, 23 December 2015

The year has closed with a particularly sickening thud.

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Well, here I am, in the deserted building on December 23rd. I like it when there's nobody here (this also happens in the depths of summe...
Thursday, 17 December 2015

Star Wars and Me

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There is no Star Wars and me really. Coming from a large rural family which viewed VCRs as an instrument of the devil, being inside and...
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Friday, 11 December 2015

I Come Not To Praise Boris, But To Bury Him

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A while ago I read a children's novel from the height of Empire called  Behind the Mountains   by Wray Hunt , a Victorian/Edwardian nove...
Wednesday, 2 December 2015

If in doubt, bomb something? Or, What A Difference A Year Makes…

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Way back in February 2011,  Vogue  ran a grovelling interview and photoshoot of Asma Al-Assad entitled  A Rose in the Desert , which went ou...
Monday, 23 November 2015

So you #standwithparis…?

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One of the interesting things about social media is that it's so emotionally open. Anyone can turn up, express a depth of emotion – posi...
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Thursday, 19 November 2015

Literary Deathmatch: Jilly Cooper v BS Johnson

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I went off to a sixth form college yesterday to run a 'taster session', designed to enthuse some teenagers about a) taking an Englis...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2015

A weekend of culture in Stoke on Trent.

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Needing a few days of proper culture, I spent the weekend in Stoke-on-Trent, where Culture is never hard to find, despite what some of you L...