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IN 2010, as a newly elected MP, nothing prepared me for a constituency surgery appointment with Michael and Susan Rudkin, a couple who gave me their account of how they had been treated by the Post Office. It was not until the public inquiry into one of the country’s worst miscarriages of justice began a year ago […]
IN the spring of 2023 it was widely predicted that the Ukrainian armed forces, equipped with advanced Western technology, would push back the Russians, and that this would initiate a coup in Moscow to unseat Vladimir Putin. The bizarre episode involving the Wagner Group fuelled this belief. But where are we now? Putin is secure in his […]
On our return from the festive break, I am handing over the first item once more to DEREK REYNOLDS. WHAT is it about sheds? My wife has a shed in our garden; it’s almost buried in ivy and clematis, and inside are the remains of charity shop window displays that she has created and is […]
Fallen Icon: Sir David Attenborough and the Walrus Deception, by Susan J Crockford, self-published 2022, available from Amazon IN APRIL 2019 TV viewers all over the country settled down to watch the second episode of the latest David Attenborough nature series, entitled Our Planet. For the first time the old gent was narrating a Netflix production after many […]
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab; Penguin Business, November 16, 2023 BILL Gates is not the Messiah. He’s a dangerous, sinister man with a God complex. Beatification after death will not suffice. His life’s work, to which he has dedicated the bulk of his ill-gotten fortune, is […]
IN the 1990s I would race home from work in the early hours of Saturday to watch a video recording of that night’s Fantasy Football League on BBC2. Irreverent, often filthy and yet full of love for the game, it was the best thing on telly by far. The format was always the same – an intro […]
WHEN we think of the Russian Revolution of 1917 we think of Lenin and Trotsky, the storming of the Winter Palace and the dissolution of the Duma. The tumultuous events of February and October 1917 not only overthrew Tsarism and then democracy but plunged a great country into 80 years of totalitarianism and bloody oppression. […]
The Fire of Joy by Clive James; Picador, 2020 CLIVE James, eyesight impaired by surgery, was unable to read when he began composing The Fire of Joy, and he knew he was not far from death. This 300-page book is a semi-autobiographical salute to his great original love – poetry. He knew the 80-ish poems in the book […]
IF, LIKE many of us, you tend to get mixed up with dates and days over the Christmas period, spare a thought for the bemused French 230 years ago. At the end of 1793, they were trying to get their heads round a new republican calendar imposed by the revolutionary Jacobin government to replace the […]
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