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Kanye West

Hitting the Wrong Target 

I have no real idea who Kanye West is. While I have heard of him and read about his more excessive, most likely drug-fuelled ‘mental health’ excesses, I could not pick him out in a line-up. I believe he is what is known as a ‘rapper’ which, to me, indicates that he talks gibberish over some […]

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Funeral

The Little Things

Death has been on my mind recently. Not my own – that will be the last thing I do. No, it is the demise of a lady in my extended circle which I have been pondering. It was not a surprise, particularly – age and a range of conditions made it likely that it would

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East London Mosque

Islam: A Ten Point Plan

Let me be clear from the outset – and get my virtue signalling in early – I have Muslim colleagues among whom I consider many to be my friends. I have few problems with any of them and regularly engage with one of them about the problems I see, not with individual Muslims but with

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The Houses of Parliament

A Question of Interests 

One way of understanding the Prime Minister, I think, is to assume he is a child playing at being Prime Minister. Like a little person solemnly sitting down at a desk and shuffling papers, much of the time, he seems to do things not because he needs to or wants to, but because he has seen others do them

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Depressed man

The Worst Job I Ever Had

Thanks to a recent YouTube recommendation, I have rediscovered the delights of Derek and Clive aka Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. One infamous recording, ‘The worst job I ever had’, is a harrowing account of the nocturnal collection of Winston Churchill’s bogeys – bogeys which, it transpired, were actually HMS Titanic. If you haven’t heard

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Glass of red wine

Wine O’Clock

“And relax. Put your feet up. Well, that was a day, wasn’t it? Anyway, you made it through and that’s not nothing. In fact, you deserve a reward. Glass of wine? Good idea. Just a cheeky one, mind. You’ve earned it.” With minor variations, this dialogue gets performed in countless heads across countless lands every

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journey

Why?

My old tutor, a monk, towards the end of his life, told me that he had spent seventy years looking for something he had possessed all along. He was not a philosopher, nor a particularly religious man (I know, odd for a monk), but in that moment he spoke with a clarity that rendered all our books and arguments superfluous. His words have stayed with

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