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The New York Subway has its escaped alligators (the descendants, supposedly, of those creatures once fashionable as up-market pets and flushed down the lavatory when they became too tiresome or their rich owners got bored); Warsaw has its armed resistance … Continue reading
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Well, I have been asking this very question in some of my recent events… “Who is stressed”? Pretty much everyone present has smiled, with an “of course” bemused look, who isn’t? But, I ask “What do we mean?” Generally we … Continue reading
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One of the enormous pleasures of visiting the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington is that the design museum, even with its amazing historic collections, continues also to focus on the contemporary, so one gets to see the very … Continue reading
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Two historical thrillers published this year which I have enjoyed reading recently are The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Haynes (Myriad, 2018) and The Angel’s Mark by S.W.Perry (Corvus, 2018). They are very different. The Murder…. is based on … Continue reading
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A return to war-time austerity, as opposed to the modern kind, is that just what we need? It was reading an article in the Sunday paper, in which the writer interviewed people in a Conservative Club in the north of … Continue reading →
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