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Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Coronavirus: the truth. So far as we know
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They say that the first casualty of war is truth. There’s no reason why the war against Coronavirus should be any different. Generally, th...
Saturday, 4 April 2020
Keir Starmer's challenge
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Just twenty minutes before the results of the election for a new Labour leader were announced, I was still on tenterhooks. The signs had all...
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Political magnanimity can be as effective as it's attractive
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Imagine that you’re lost in a dark wood at night. You come into a clearing in which there are a pink Elephant, an honest politician and Bori...
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The joy of the self-deprecating smile
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There’s something exceptionally attractive about self-deprecating humour. That’s true even if we sense that behind it is something of a di...
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Sunday, 29 March 2020
Great way to binge through the lockdown
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Unorthodox . Shira Haas in Berlin’s Wannsee lake Even at the best of times, Danielle and I enjoy binging on TV series. Obviously, it h...
Thursday, 26 March 2020
A smile in the pandemic
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An implacable disease has broken out. A silent enemy, its stealthy advance appears inexorable, as it leaves a trail of victims behind it. At...
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Monday, 23 March 2020
The Walking Dead, or has Sanders done a Corbyn?
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‘Dead man walking’ is an overused expression. But I can’t help feeling it fits Bernie Sanders perfectly. Barring some kind of miracle, the o...
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