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Monthly Archives: February 2006
Dennett on God
I have written a fairly rude review of Dan Dennett’s new book on God, which will in due course appear in the Guardian. But the piece that the New York Times published on it fills me with sympathy for the … Continue reading Continue reading
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Shelley
One of the stupidest things I ever did was to decide, at an impressionable age, that since Shelley was respectable, I wanted nothing to do with him. He is a thinker of extraordinary toughness and force who just happened to … Continue reading Continue reading
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Black Tartan Wombat
If you are near London, and hurry, you may find in the basement of Forbidden Planet a sale of the paperback collected editions of Brian Aldiss’ novels at a pound each. They were just coming out when I profiled him … Continue reading Continue reading
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West coast fried braincells
Not to warm up any deadhead jokes — though we still don’t know how many copies of the the Eleven Mrs I-am-not-a-Deadhead Tilton has — but there is enormous fun to be had here where the vaults of the Bill … Continue reading Continue reading
A snotty youth
I was trying to remember the circumstances in which Auberon Waugh caused a mob to burn down the British consulate in Rawalpindi — it was one of his favourite stories — and so pulled from the shelves The Spectator anthology … Continue reading Continue reading
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Why babies cry
This is a really silly idea, but I like it. Just got back from a couple of nights in Edinburgh, where amongst other things, we had supper with Louise-who-comments-here and the talked moved naturally to witchcraft trials. They hardly tortured … Continue reading Continue reading
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An interesting task
Two projects for next month: I will make another Analysis programme on what the government’s policy towards domestic Islamic terrorism actually is; and I will produce a longish essay for the Guardian looking at whether it is true – as … Continue reading Continue reading
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ungrateful
Every six months or so I think that I must get a download from the Grateful Dead music store; it takes about that long to forget how awful the system is. They have a site which doesn’t work with firefox … Continue reading Continue reading
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