Mar
30
PUNCH DRUNK
RAGING BULLY
Middleweight boxer Bernard Hopkins’s ring-walk entrance a few days after 9/11, set to Ray Charles’s
6 min read
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Mar
29
MESSIAHS AND MASKS
IN GOOD FAITH WITH BAD FAITH ACTORS
Groucho Marx once quipped, “I’m not prepared to be a member of
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Mar
23
BLACK NARCISSIST
Was chatting with a friend over coffee a few weekends ago about cultural matters and somehow we got on to
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Mar
23
MISS CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER
Perhaps I’m a little biased, as the most prominent name in rotation on my music playlist lately was born
2 min read
Mar
22
DEVOTED TO THE DON
Sometimes you don’t realise how much you love something until it suddenly reappears in your life, and you feel
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Mar
19
NATIONAL TREASURE
There are many moments and events in history (both real and possibly invented) I would love to have been a
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Mar
19
THE HARDEST THING
You know the hardest thing
Is to say goodbye to someone you love
That's the hardest thing
Putting
1 min read
Mar
17
LEGS MCSKALLY
She danced, every St Patrick’s Day, the jig, for the soaked and sodden men gathered in the low-lit snug
3 min read
Mar
09
THE WORLD WE KNEW
There was a brief shining moment during Iran’s 1960s–1970s modernisation period when the country opened its doors to
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Mar
08
THE NIGHTS BEFORE THE WORLD CHANGED
There are atmospheres, real and imagined, that haunt the mind in strange ways, like the faded photographs of the Titanic
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