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Continue reading →: ‘Being British’ and not making a fuss
My latest opinion piece for the E2D NOW I don’t want to be melodramatic or anything, but at the time of writing I’m just hours away from heading back to Bangladesh – where I spent the six happiest years of my life – and I’m very aware ‘I may not…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies by William Golding My rating: 4 of 5 stars ‘Lord of the Flies’ is another of those classics I always intended to read but never had the chance to until now. I’m not sure the novel deserves its cult status but I am certainly glad it’s…
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Continue reading →: An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions
Originally published in the E2D Happy New Year to you all! I hope you’ve all recovered nicely from the holiday season and not finding the dreary trudge of normal life which January always seems to hold in store for us too much for you. Did you make any New Year’s…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have no fear of ‘killing my darlings’ as we say in the writing game and I count favourite novelists as fair targets in that respect as you will know if you’ve been following my book reviews…
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Continue reading →: Principles and Systems
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. I’m writing this on Remembrance Sunday having stood in the pouring rain watching my children take part as cadets in the Whitehaven parade. While I’m trying to warm up I’ve been thinking about how the parade brought to mind the…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Complete Novels by Franz Kafka
Complete Novels by Franz Kafka My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am a huge fan of Kafka, or I was. I studied his short stories at university and was bewildered and challenged by his writings yet found them irresistible. I enjoyed too the BBC film version of his greatest…
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Continue reading →: Why Calderwood House offers hope to all of us
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. I was impressed and moved by Rachel Holliday when I met her for the opening of Calderwood House recently. I was impressed because this woman had virtually strong-armed a number of people, including the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria,…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. WodehouseThank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse My rating: 4 of 5 stars Continuing on my ever-present task of reading classic books I really should have read decades ago, I have thoroughly enjoyed my first venture into the world of Jeeves and Wooster. What’s more, my two teenage children also enjoyed…
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Continue reading →: Theatre Review: Fallen Angels by Noël Coward
This review was written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper in August 2015. The cast at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake continue to tickle the fancy of audiences with this third and last comedy of the current season. Fallen Angels is one of Coward’s lesser known plays but at the time…
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Continue reading →: Syrians, Smartphones and Social Media
From my opinion column written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper. This one earned me my first hate mail! The refugee crisis has been huge in the news recently and suddenly governments are no longer talking about ‘the immigration crisis’ and are now saying ‘oh well, of course we need to…
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