I chose this book for my fiction blog this time around largely because of a serendipitous piece of timing. I started reading it shortly before a trip ...
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If you are familiar with the works of such artists as Salvador Dali and René Magritte, you will be completely familiar with the sense of fantasy that...
Read MoreThe guy who came in from the cold
In terms of my f-factors blogs, this could have been categorised as either fashion, football or fun, but I’ve gone with the former. And I’...
Read MoreFollowing football fashion
Taylor Swift is back in London this week, with a string of five shows in six nights starting at Wembley on Thursday evening. She was there for three g...
Read MoreSwiftonomics
Is it the sort of fantasy you would like – to be transported in a self-driving vehicle, or in a car piloted by a humanoid robot? Obviously that ...
Read MoreLife & death in the fast lane
On Sunday evening the England football team became the country’s first men’s line-up to contest a major final outside England. Later that ...
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I was in Paris last week. France is in some turmoil at present. President Macron was so enraged by the poor performance of his own party, and the bett...
Read MoreThe City of Light & a country in chaos
A couple of weeks or so ago, Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said: “We must be ready for war by 2029.” He meant with Ru...
Read MoreThe end of the world is nigh on three hours long
The chief literary critic of The Times recently described Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (the cover is shown on the home page) as a novel ...
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