Saturday, September 26, 2015

The World Of Yesterday

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A month ago I wrote about the art of the memoir ….listing some of the more memorable examples for me of that genre of writing. In the p...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Fatalism - democracy's default position?

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I have become a sucker in recent years for “intellectual histories” – what you might call “stories about stories” - or trying to identif...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

How Sofia opened Robert Conquest's Eyes

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Robert Conquest – who died last month at the age of 98 – was the best known British investigator in the post-war period of the true scale ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Carbon Democracy

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Those of us who try to keep up with things have piles of books on the key subjects of the day - "global warming", "end of o...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

"Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me"??

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Austerity policies and anti-terrorism strategies have become two of the strongest parts of European government responses to the global ...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Rural life in the early part of the century

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One of my great fortunes in life is to have a mountain house which had stood empty for more than a decade when we first clapped eyes on ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Working Across Cultures - how it expands the mind

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I opened a veritable Pandora’s Box of personal memories this week – with the post on memoirs…….. Then remembered a stack of large notebo...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Intimations of Mortality

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Those of us who enjoy good health don’t give a moment’s thought to the prospect of growing old and frail. Making a will should be a wake...