Tuesday, 31 August 2010

No mermaid, no murders, plenty of Aquavit

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We’re just back from a long weekend with friends in Copenhagen. We liked the city, we liked the atmosphere, and we liked the Danes: friendly...
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010

The popular pastime of foot-shooting

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If we conjure up a mental image of a target, I suppose most of us think of some kind of disk with rings of alternating colour around a bull’...
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Friday, 20 August 2010

The best of friends

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Being made redundant is, I’ll admit, a pretty depressing experience (particularly when it happens for the third time – why, I may soon have ...
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Cynicism and St Tony

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According to Oscar Wilde, a cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. There is something deeply corrosive a...
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Sunday, 15 August 2010

Not a lot of fun at the Carnival

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It’s strange how you can just miss things. Danielle and I are great fans of the relatively recent genre of the TV series. The beauty of th...
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Thursday, 12 August 2010

I think therefore I am, and Berlusconi can ignore his rivals

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It’s funny how things that happen today can evoke half-remembered memories from decades ago. For instance, when I was a student I spent a ...
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010

A poisoned Farrow may be a deadly weapon

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In London in 1975, I went to see a production of Harley Granville-Barker’s The marrying of Ann Leete . Granville-Barker was a contemporary a...
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