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Anatomy of a Thriller

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What makes a good thriller? What do I mean by ‘good’? Successful, as in best-selling? That’s a very difficult question, no one really knows why one book makes the best seller lists while a similar book by a similar author … Continue reading

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Voting Demographics

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Since Monday’s post a number of readers have been in contact to ask where I got my figures on new voters from, so this post is by way of explanation. My assumption was that approximately 700k new voters join the … Continue reading

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Brexit as Usual

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Six days in hospital and no mention of Brexit. Didn’t think about it once. I was far too ill to watch TV, or, for much of the time even notice that it was there. I had more immediate concerns….. But … Continue reading

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Time

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First there was sidereal time, the cold time of stars and rings and churning space, charted by the ancients, drawn down by Galen and informing Dante; then Newtonian time, for want of a better description, when our blind watchmaker automates … Continue reading

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To see Ourselves as Others See Us

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The lines from Robert Burns’ poem To a Louse ‘O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!’ sprang to mind recently when visiting the British Museum’s FREE display What is Europe, A View From … Continue reading