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The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026
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Margate Minge
The Margate of my youth was a poorer place without Ms Emin but I am nonetheless delighted to say the working class seaside atmosphere remains.
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The terror of early humans
A visit to the Bronze Age Boat gallery today brought home very forcibly the sheer terror I would have felt as one of our early human ancestors. The picture above is of a bronze age boat, thought to date back 3,600 years. It was found in 1992 in Dover, a busy seaside port on the…
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The Benefits of People Watching
If you are going to talk to people at all, make sure they are people you do not know and are foreign as regards your class, tribe or social milieu.
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On Facing Daemons
“Exi ergo, transgressor. Exi, seductor, plene omni dolo et fallacia, virtutis inimici, innocentium persecutor.”
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Hobbiton-on-Sea
One of the advantages of living in Middle Earth is observing the locals at work and play.
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Game of Thrones 8
If you think it’s all about sex, dragons and slaughter you might just be wrong. It’s also about apocalypse and that I find rather fascinating.
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Billions -Faint Disgust?
I watched an episode of Season 2 of Billions last night and was left with an unaccustomed feeling of repulsion. According to Wikipedia: The series is loosely based on the activities of Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and his legal battles with hedge fund manager Steve Cohen of S.A.C. Capital Advisors. I had…
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Shock and Awe – Battersea Power Station
How small and insignificant I felt grovelling at the foot of this seventh wonder of the world.
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The Destructive Power of Cynicism
Reading of the demise of renowned fund manager Neil Woodford, I was reminded of my deep capacity for destructive cynicism. The fellow had had a good run for many years but like all gurus, investment or otherwise, he eventually proved to have feet of clay like the rest of us. But cynicism and its close…
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Original thinking or garbled trope?
Too often writers feel obliged to offer up a digest or synthesis of what they have read rather than contributing anything new or original.