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Friday, 8 August 2025
The Online Safety Act - To Petition Against Or Not?
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Should I sign the petition to repeal the Online Safety Act? After all, the thing was more or less written to order for the Carnegie Foundati...
Friday, 1 August 2025
Geroge Gissing, Elena Ferrante and Tracking Characters
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I have not read an Elena Ferrante novel, but I have seen S1 of My Brilliant Friend , and I have read a Natalia Ginzburg novel, so I'm ...
Friday, 25 July 2025
Jazz On A Summer's Day
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I saw Bert Stern's movie when I was seventeen. It was playing at the Screen on Baker Street. It didn't turn me on to any more jazz t...
Friday, 18 July 2025
Lizzy Mercier Descloux
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Good God, ZE Records! There's a name from the past. Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Was Not Was. Big at the time, known only to ageing afic...
Friday, 11 July 2025
Spy Novels: Deighton, Le Carre, Rimington, Brookes
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James Bond was, in a phrase at the time, the man all men wanted to be and all women wanted to have. I have fond memories of a small book tha...
Friday, 4 July 2025
150 Piccadilly ... aka...
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Once the temperature goes over 80F or so, I go into survival mode. I can't really think ahead too far. And when I do try to visit my o...
Friday, 27 June 2025
When We Were Dreaming - Clement Meyers
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Robert McKee's criticism of Betty Blue was that it had no story: it was two hours of watching someone fall deeper into a violent madnes...
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