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Received Truth

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I have been reading Andrew O’Hagan’s The Tower, on the Grenfell fire and its aftermath ( link here ) in the London Review of Books. It’s a remarkable piece of writing, from its description of events happening to some of the … Continue reading

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Technical Notes

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Last week a series of Technical Notices were released in a batch of twenty-five from the DExEU, just in time for the Bank Holiday weekend, purporting to set out what actions would need to be taken if there was a … Continue reading

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Setting the Scene

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September is just around the corner which, in terms of UK politics, means that conference season will shortly be upon us. Parliament returns on 4th September after the Summer recess, but goes into recess again for conferences from 13th September … Continue reading

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Clapham Old Town Fair

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It’s only a week until this year’s Clapham Old Town Fair and the Clapham Book Festival’s latest outing. As in the previous two years we have a stall (the stall is called Clapham Writers, the charitable body which organises the … Continue reading

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Books in the Gardens of Spain

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Time for another piece on books at The Story Bazaar. Some of this reading is my research (that authorial quagmire) or at least that’s my excuse. The Moor’s Last Stand; How Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End by … Continue reading