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Yearly Archives: 2005
Clearly an excellent book
My first agent, and continuing friend, Xandra Hardie the Countess Gowrie Bingley has published a memoir of her childhood which has been getting excellent reviews all over the place. Not that I’m suggesting you buy it, or anything … Continue reading
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sorsele sunset
I’ve been flickr-ing what I was up to. I still can’t really believe I saw this Continue reading
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This is really strange
Looking at Tony Howard’s piece on women bishops in the Times today, I noticed a rack of google ads down one side. This was the bottom one …. Continue reading
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Something completely different
If you have a fast PC and have not yet played with Google Earth you are missing something astonishing. It has to be a PC, I’m afraid: there’s client software to download. Essentially it is a set of satellite maps … Continue reading Continue reading
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Gloomy thoughts
It’s true as well as inspiring to say that London is a great, multicultural city and will recover from this. It has the traditions of resilience, tolerance, and diversity. But that’s not so true of England as a whole, and … Continue reading Continue reading
thought passing through
Is anyone reading this in Stockholm? I will be passing through on Wednesday evening, with six hours to kill before the night train to Continue reading
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Bomb Thoughts
Are up at Salon if anyone’s interested. Not very coherent, but not notably wrong, either. I do wish I had been closer to the action. I know it sounds callous, but that’s what journalists do. I want to see, not … Continue reading Continue reading
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The metabolic power of the sacred
Possibly also classed under patriotism. God knows the British press is dreadful at times. But I don’t think that even the Daily Mail could publish this particular flavour of crap. If it could, surely someone there would have been sacked … Continue reading Continue reading
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Easter Island
Here we come! I read stories like this, and for the first time in my life I wonder whether it was fair to have children. But perhaps that’s just wimpish. If billions of people are going to die anyway, why … Continue reading Continue reading
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