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Yearly Archives: 2004
Note from a scandal
Readers of the Spectator this week will have learned from Stephen Glover’s column that the whole Blunkett/Fortier affair came out because a secretary in Blunkett’s office has been conducting an affair of her own with a senior executive in News … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Guardian First Book party
You could tell this was a proper literary party from the exclamations of disgust that greeted the doggy bags that had slim volumes of poetry1 in them. There is always one book on the shortlist that you want, three you’d … Continue reading Continue reading
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cult oddness
I seem to be chairing a debate on cults at the ICA this Sunday, with Jon Ronson and Eileen Barker. Perhaps, by Sunday, I will seem to have thought of something to say. Continue reading
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oh dear
“Kimberley Quinn” is a name free of sin: “Kimberley Fortier” was naughtier. Continue reading
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more with the wacky
Dr Baber complains that I am always passing comments on those wacky Americans.1 Modestly veiled in her comments is a pointer to a really interesting essay about the different ways in which the two Americas think of government. She thinks … Continue reading Continue reading
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English manners
An elderly friend came round with her dachshund this morning for coffee and reminiscence with my mother-in-law. I took refuge in the sitting room, leaving the door to my study open; the dachshund, which didn’t seem to like me, trotted … Continue reading Continue reading
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heavily armed Christians
via boingboing comes this site, not, so far as I can tell, a parody. the best of military technology is not readily available to the citizen militiaman, in spite of the fact that the very purpose of the Second Amendment … Continue reading Continue reading
Human interface
A freind of mine has an adolescent son with Aspberger’s; something I don’t want to have to imagine. The child said very little until he was three, though he spent a lot of time listening to tapes. Then, one day … Continue reading Continue reading
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