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Yearly Archives: 2006
Teasing Nick Cohen
I didn’t get any reply to my offer of a drink with Nick, perhaps because I teased him about being wrong about the war – nobly wrong, perhaps, wrong from admirable motives – but still completely and utterly shit-faced wrong … Continue reading Continue reading
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Strictly for smartarses
The FWB has just sent me a bumper sticker, arising from her latin homework Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades Continue reading
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More soho memories
In 1980, Jeffrey Bernard had been a hopeless alcoholic for fifteen years but he had only turned professional seven years before, when he started a weekly column on his life in the Spectator. The magazine had hired him as television … Continue reading Continue reading
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Flotsam on the coast of Bohemia
If I had not drunk with her on occasion I would not have believed this obit of Sandy Fawkes could be truthful, but the Coach and Horses really was like that. Only the Telegraph can do this sort of obituary … Continue reading Continue reading
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Shorter Nick Cohen
I’ve been exchanging emails with my old chum, who laboured by my side for years to keep upright the bar of the Angel in Old Street; he tells me I’m writing a book on what’s happened to the Left provisionally … Continue reading Continue reading
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Comprehensive education
The scene: a class of fifteen year olds being taught "personal and social development", in a largely middle class comprehensive school. The teacher presents them with an ethical dilemma, from her pack of materials. Teacher: Annie is pregnant Children: Whoo! … Continue reading Continue reading
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a note on age
Is it just me, or are the children of decrepit parents growing younger? Continue reading
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To bed with Margaret Atwood
and yet another cold. Bodily Harm, an early novel of hers, is larger and more sprawling than the dystopian stories I have been reading recently ( Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale ). But it’s well worth the effort — … Continue reading Continue reading
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Sayers finally enters the ring
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man; and by behaving in conformity with which, man enjoys his true freedom. This is what the … Continue reading Continue reading
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