Sunday, May 17, 2015

Candide's Journey - an expose of journalism

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I’m always intrigued by confessional-type books which sketch how the scales fell from a writer’s eyes and how (s)he began to “connect th...
Friday, May 15, 2015

The great Romanian Realist school

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  An “Art Safari” is taking place this week on Bucharest’s central thoroughfare, Magheru Boulevard, in what was, until recently, an art-...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Spare a thought......

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The world will have noticed that the British Conservative won a surprisingly clear-cut victory in last week’s General Elections; and ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Unwelcoming Pleven

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Pleven is a city in the northern part of Bulgaria which looks rather forbidding from the heights of the main Russe-Sofia road above whic...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Collapse

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Just seen one of the pithiest epithets for the generation I belonged to in the middle of the 20 th Century –   “We were poor, but we di...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Britain at the Polls - but no longer "Great" or "United" - let alone a...Kingdom

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As the UK prepares to go tomorrow to the polls, I have a guilty secret to confess - I haven’t actually cast a vote since 1990 (when I vote...
Monday, May 4, 2015

The Emperor has no clothes! Questioning reform

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Readers will know that I spent the first half of my working life encouraging structures which gave voice to people who had previously be...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Memory’s Veil - forgetting and remembering

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Books have been appearing in recent years celebrating the simple pleasures of life (such as swimming, walking, eating, not talking) and be...