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Monthly Archives: March 2003
the news
Both personal and political is so dispiriting I can hardly bear to type anything more about it. Ghastly things have happened to my oldest friend; Britain’s place as America’s most valuable ally is assured by Richard Perle’s threat to sue … Continue reading Continue reading
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Seeing Joan
A square, pale room, seven stories up. From the generous windows, we could see the bow-fronted stucco villas of Headington, with gardens for childhood. In the room were four old women and four beds. One sat completely silent and still, … Continue reading Continue reading
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no use having only one
I have thought since last summer that Slovenia is the most civilised country in Europe. Now it turns out to have been the most technologically advanced, at least 8,500 years ago. Continue reading
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torture
I keep wanting to stop writing about the war. But there is fresh horror almost every day. It is not the fact of war, or the collapse of the UN, and all the other consequences that were foreseeable, but the … Continue reading Continue reading
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Scum at the top
Short form: Richard Perle, once known without affection as the Prince of Darkness, now the leading warhard/Likudnik ideologue, is the chairman of a Venture Capital trust which invests in the arms trade, sorry “defence equipment, and products useful in Homeland … Continue reading Continue reading
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illustration
Some reader complained that they did not know what an armchair made from macaroni might look like. Well, here’s a picture of Max Perutz with a haemoglobin molecule (not to scale) Continue reading
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BR in efficiency miracle
There is now a a constantly updated virtual departure board for my station. Now all they need to do is fix the trains. But it is lovely to be a mouseclick away from the next train. Continue reading
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who is this man
and what is he smoking? I only think I know the answer to the second question Continue reading
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up with skool
The oddest gig of my professional life to date: I spent most of the day in the windowless basement of the Hilton Mews hotel in Mayfair helping to choose the books which will be introduced into the National Curriculum at … Continue reading Continue reading
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Class warfare
The Daily Mail leads today with the news that the government has finally declared class warfare on the Middle classes: a delicious, blonde 18-year-old with three A-Level As, whose interests are world peace and nudism (oh all right, I made … Continue reading Continue reading
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