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Flamenco Fix

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One week to go. There’s just over a week until the beginning of the Festival de Jerez 2018 and my party of Festival goers is anticipating it all with glee (must buy train tickets today). Scattered across the UK, but … Continue reading

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The Jewish Museum

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What would a Jewish Museum be like? Would it be a museum of one of the three great monotheisms? Or of a race (defined as such by itself, by others or by history ) and was there a difference in … Continue reading

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Conversation at the Horse Hospital

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The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury is familiar to the modern art cogniscienti (though not to me). It was what its title suggests, a place for the doctoring of horses, built in 1797, originally as part of the mews behind the … Continue reading

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More on Reconquista II…

Thank you, those of you who have been asking about the sequel to Reconquista and especially to those of you who have already signed up to purchase a copy before it is even published (it was quite a boost seeing … Continue reading

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Sympathy

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I have been searching, without success, for a word which means ‘to feel sympathy for an inanimate object’. Our old friend ‘synesthesia’ is the closest I’ve found yet and even a plea on twitter has failed me. My search was … Continue reading