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  • Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas everyone. It feels strange, restrictive and humbling to be made housebound by nature gone bad in this apparently modern world devoid of big ideas of how to overcome it. Yet somehow we look to technology to stay in touch with each other and sane when being social is our default. Let’s hope in…

  • The Silence: Don Delillo

    I have not read a novel by Don Delillo before but I was more than aware of his fame to be attracted by this apparent zeitgeist novella about what would happen if, god forbid, the wifi went down. There are so many variations of this scenarioI I am sure there will be more stories to…

  • Maurice Glasman: how the fates abandoned Boris

    Maurice Glasman in his article in Unherd “how the fates abandoned Boris” nails the blindspot Labour suffered from in the last election”: the Tories understood that the long-term disaffection of Labour’s heartland voters with globalisation and abandonment combined with the short-term incoherence of Jeremy Corbyn. Even under Starmer – a remainer at heart – Labour…

  • Merry Christmas

    It has been a roller coaster of emotions over the last 24 hours. After much anguish about travelling the length of the country to visit siblings during the Christmas relaxation window within the rules of bubblesI thought I had a viable plan. And then, after rumours in the media all day, the government announced the…

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