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The people next door
No more healing rainbows There is a quaint timber-framed building a couple of doors down from where I live in Rochester High Street. It was, until recently, the incongruous home of an alternative...
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Two birds with one stone
The UK 2015 general election map I’ve been watching the general election with a mixture of fascination, horror, bewilderment and exhilaration. I disagree with all those who thought it was a dull...
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Tell it like it is
John Travolta in Primary Colors There’s a scene in Primary Colors (1998), one of my favourite American movies, that keeps coming back to me as I read about the current presidential race in the USA....
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Zugzwang
Sculpture by Amanda Barton of King Godred Crovan and his son King Olaf, playing chess, Ramsey, Isle of Man.Zugzwang is a favourite word of mine. It’s a German term, meaning ‘compulsion to move’, but it...
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Playing power
Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Vice (2018), via https://ew.comWas this face the face That every day under his household roof Did keep ten thousand men? Was this the face That like the sun did make...
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