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Comment on From cosy to crazy by whistler80
I would love to hear from anyone in the film / entertainment industry to be brave enough to say they…
Comment on Diary by davidshort10
Cor, this diary from a nobody is so boring I couldn’t get through the second paragraph. Who choose this person?…
Comment on We are not a hateful nation by Paul Carolan
Its starting to look similar with rape where some recent acquitals at trial show all that is required to ensure…
Comment on Zero tolerance, zero sanity by Dan
Happily your “guess” and your “judgement” are both immaterial as the case was heard in a court of law where…
Comment on Brexit means sovereignty by Graham
I think we all agree a deal needs to be done asap away from article 50, before article 50 is…
Comment on Brexit means sovereignty by Rob2000
…and here come the well thought out and reasoned counter arguments. Well done. Have a gold star. Got something to…
Comment on Brexit means sovereignty by Rob2000
Except of course this discussion is about sticking to the rules on leaving the club, whilst still in the club…
Comment on Zero tolerance, zero sanity by MikeF
In other words the CPS and BTP were not acting on the basis of a misdirected but well-intentioned zeal but…
Comment on Brexit means sovereignty by Rob2000
The UK Parliament is both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and of course, the Sovereign. The…
Comment on Brexit means sovereignty by Graham
I didn’t say anything we like. I mean I do not see how the EU can force us to stick…
Comment on Brexit means sovereignty by Rob2000
Maybe the difference is that crops and livestock don’t tend to be migratory. Just a thought. Got something to add?…
A hero recalled
In these times it seems that heroes are acclaimed readily and easily. A single television appearance coupled with a politically…
A gentleman among players
I once played in something called the Writers’ World Cup. A lot of people in publishing (novelists, journalists, editors, agents)…
Thoroughly modern Buffy
Cards on the table. Before I’d published my first novel, or written for newspapers, or won awards for my writing,…
Heroes in error
In the first year or so of the Iraq occupation — or ‘big Army goatfuck’, as it is not quite…
The faceless man in the bowler hat
Surrealism was, at least initially, as much about writing as painting. A plaque on the Hotel des Grands Hommes in…
Getting away with murder
Cher Hughes loved the beauty, the white sand beaches and sun-kissed climate of the tropical islands of Bocas del Toro…
Playing at shepherdesses
Oh, the longueurs of aristocratic Georgian leisure. What on earth did they do all day, with no domestic chores, no…
Glimpses of beauty
Born in Michigan, raised in Lagos and educated in London and New York, Teju Cole is about as cosmopolitan as…
You can run but you can’t hide
In The Circle, Dave Eggers’s satirical dystopia about an insatiable Google-like conglomerate, there’s a scene in which drones hound a…
The Teutonic King Arthur
Hitler, ever seeking to emulate strong German hero types (especially if their Christian name was Frederick), unsurprisingly named his great…
A five-ring fiasco
The ambitions of the founding father of the modern Olympic Games, the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin — that they…
Rich in legend and song
There is an immediate problem for anyone producing a guide to places in Scotland with literary connections: as Walter Scott…
Maryland’s mean streets
Quick tip, should you ever find yourself alone in the interview room at the police headquarters of Prince George’s County,…
‘I wish you were never born’
All parents worry about the extent to which their children will expose their private weirdness to the world. They tell…
