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Hello, You might have noticed passing references on this newsletter to MY NEW BOOK. I am happy to say that MY NEW BOOK has now been published. MY NEW B…
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Hello, Obligatory shilling. I wrote for The Critic about parental regret and in defence of not always saying what you think and feel. I wrote for Spect…
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I like to think I am a fairly open-minded person. Of course, I am not the clearest judge, being myself, so if you disagree then I am very willing to li…
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This is an exclusive - yes, that’s right, EXCLUSIVE - preview of my forthcoming book of satirical short stories “Noughties”, which presents eleven echo…
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Hello, Busyness has made the last two editions of THE ZONE less powerful than they could have been. My apologies. I hope this week’s edition will steer…
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Two separate incidents of terrorism scarred British life in recent weeks: the stabbing of David Amess MP and the attempt to bomb a Remembrance Day para…
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Hello, Obligatory shilling. I was interviewed by Dan Palmer about life, death and everything in between. I wrote a tribute to Gerald Russello and edito…
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Europeans are very used to migration crises around Italy and Greece, to the point of just ignoring them, but a migration crisis in Central and Eastern …
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The wrestling business has often been compared to the mafia. No, not just because it has been dominated by a family of cold-blooded megalomaniacs. It i…
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I was very sad to hear of the death of Gerald Russello, editor of The University Bookman at the Russell Kirk Center. I only knew Gerald in a profession…
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Hello, Unusual shilling. If you don’t follow me on Twitter you might have missed that I have edited and published a little book of my late mother’s poe…
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Professional wrestling is absurd. It is completely absurd. It is so absurd that if you try to explain exactly what it is, you give up out of embarrassm…
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