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New house!
Well, this is exciting… We’ve only gone and bought a house! It hasn’t quite sunk in yet. It’s probably because we are currently in a grace period and not properly moved yet or maybe I’m trying not to think of the decades of debt I’ve just happily signed into. I have settled at the top of…
Rainbows Over Orlando – a response in a poem
In the aftermath of the Orlando gay nightclub mass shooting, I read about a news interview whereby an increasingly frustrated journalist stormed off during a live discussion of the killer’s motives. They were debating if the shooter was acting in the name of religious terrorism or homophobic hate crime. Apparently it’s one or the other…
Book review: The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda
A modern Japanese murder mystery with a jaded worldview in need of urgent investigation.
Wise words discovered under a London book store
I find myself wandering alone through the streets of London – a city that I have visited briefly a few times and struggled to find that click, that intrigue, that instant friendship. Gone 9pm, I’m surprised to see a bookstore open and busy, seemingly staging some sort of quiet rebellion against a revolving parade of…
My latest film review: Fellini – Satyricon
To watch ‘Fellini – Satyricon’ is like being sucked through a history textbook and tricked into strolling through a circus freak show, the sense of bewilderment remaining until the end credits have passed and you’re transported back into the real world having learnt little but experienced much.
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