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Category Archives: Blather
Cherie and the Mail
OK. It’s clear that Cherie Blair has behaved foolishly in getting tangled with a conman, and then compounded this by making civil servants lie to the press. She will pay for it all sooner or later, and she should already … Continue reading Continue reading
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Squelching Pinker
The last time I saw Steven Pinker, at the Old Vic, with Ian McEwan, he was so dreadful that words failed me altogether. I’m glad that Louis Menand was not so afflicted, in the New Yorker. Continue reading
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No redeeming social value
like it says. Continue reading
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Copenhagen interpretations 1
I spent Saturday at a conference in Jesus college, organised by John Cornwell, on the subject of Werner Heisenberg’s war guilt and Michael Frayn’s play “Copenhagen”, which deals with the subject. The day started with a rehearsed reading of the … Continue reading Continue reading
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Editing
I sort of knew the Nielsen Haydens from the Well, so I drifted over quite naturally to their blogs when I discovered them. A real delight. Earlier this week, Patrick got tired of one contributor, so he banned him. The … Continue reading Continue reading
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awwww
This is just so sweet. (From Making Light.) Continue reading
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hanging on
I was drinking with Francis in the Pillars of Hercules, as an act of piety to all the underpaid writers who drank there long before us. He’s writing a book about technology, and I had just come from wrapping my … Continue reading Continue reading
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Well I’ll be blown!
This comes from a review in the Telegraph of Barry Humphries’ latest memoirs: Continue reading
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whodathunkit
— the 419 scams actually make money — $100m a year, according to Slate. No wonder the offers just keep coming. But in a world where a young man fresh out of jail can win Continue reading