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So what happened next…?

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Internecine warfare, holding on by one’s fingertips and, just a fortnight ago, a crucial vote. Lots of people have been accessing Who Rules Spain? Erm….  recently which has prompted the question in the title of this article. My last post on … Continue reading

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Common People 17

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From Common Reading at Clapham Book Festival to Common People ’17, lots of free music and the spoken word on a Bank Holiday weekend in south London. It was thirty degrees and sunny as we lounged in deck chairs to … Continue reading

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I Don’t Want to go to Chelsea….

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…sang Elvis Costello back in the ’70s. But I do and have – been going to Chelsea that is – for twenty years and more ( twenty five actually, I first went in 1994 )  But not this year. It’s … Continue reading

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The Second Draft

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Organising (and performing) at two Festivals this Spring has meant less time for writing. (Writers of old never had to contend with such – I blame the showman Dickens for the idea of prose writer as performer.*) So, although I … Continue reading

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London Books

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The first chapter of Peter Ackroyd’s London Under is entitled Darkness Visible and it begins ‘Tread carefully over the pavements of London for you are treading on skin, a skein of stone that covers rivers and labyrinths, tunnels and chambers, streams … Continue reading