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DOES ANYONE WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD?
DOES ANYONE WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD?The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.Milton FriedmanAs I...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9wuTOedkloThank you, Ben E. King. And Leiber and Stoller. And Atlantic Records for putting that insistent Tympani and strings on this superbly romantic and insistent...
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The Deadly Election: Who Goes There?
LEMMINGS ON THE CLIFFSThe choice is … no choice. In three days the United Kingdom (and despite all the Murdoch and Cameron Sturgeonesque scaremongering, that’s still what it is) goes to the polls. Yet...
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Hack Poetry
How Dare you Write Poetry!ShelleyI’ve written on this subject before, but today I gathered an extra follower on Twitter, and he’s a successful performance poet, so I reckoned it was time to re-examine...
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Anyone for Inflatable Trousers?
When our political leaders get involved in way-out ‘spirituality’, we really sit up and take note.Cherie Blair sans pantalonsThese days that paragon of political virtue, ex-UK Prime Minister Tony...
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Opposition's Swansong
7.5.15: Decency Defeated'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law'Aleister CrowleyIn 480 BC 300 Spartans held back the massive Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. In the Spanish Civil War...
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The End of it All
DOWNFALL May 8 2015Crow now, loud ravens of greedDrink deep from victory’s cupVoracious in your triumphYou have raped the maid of moderationMaintained the idol of your meannessUpon its pedestal of...
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Japanese Medical Advice
RISING MEDICAL SON ...No, I didn't write this, but it certainly made me smile. As someone who struggles with a weight problem day in, day out, I can't totally agree with everything said in this...
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WISE WORDS FROM A FINE MAN
Often, as a writer, you can start the day feeling down, crestfallen and defeated. That's when you need to trawl through literary history to give yourself a transfusion of inspiration. I particularly...
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Music Laid Bare
A STINKED-UP, DIRTY BUSINESS; BUT A LOT OF FUN (and a great read ...)Last night I finished reading Simon Napier Bell's epic history of the music business, and rarely have I enjoyed a book as much as...
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Terry Pratchett: A Brightness Extinguished
TERRY MEETS THAT CHARACTER: DEATH.When a writer, artist or musician dies, another luminous avenue of creative originality suddenly ends and we are all the losers. Now another light has been...
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An Astronomy Anomaly: Patrick Moore the Hoaxer
Hoaxed! How Patrick Moore pulled the woolover the eyes of the UFO CommunityMention the name Lembit Öpik (left) these days, and this ex- Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire usually conjures up an...
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TAMÁM SHUD
The Bizarre Mystery of the Somerton ManI remember walking through Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia, back in the early 1960s. The mainly residential seaside suburb is home to the...
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WHAT'S THE POINT OF IT ALL?
R.I.P. BLOGGINGI have just deleted 170 posts going all the way back to 2010. In some strange way, it felt good. Wiping away all the conceited drivel and opinionated trash written with that one aim in...
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Hyenas and Donkeys
The Irresistible Breaking of SilenceDonkeys and Hyenas Mmmm! Britain ... was there ever a tastier corpse?It’s Monday morning, May 18 2015. It’s raining, windy and chilly, and Wilkinsons, the household...
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INKY BRITAIN
The fraternity of the inked: A fine brace of 'individuals' pictured here. You're in such good company with a tattoo. Loving that neck disfigurement, and the good-looking bloke in the cap showing us...
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Anger is an Energy
BLOGGING: I SAID THERE WAS NO POINT TO IT ALL.But 'Anger is an Energy' - John Lydon.Getting over May 7th I feel like some drunk in a pub who's looking for a punch-up over an insult to my wife whilst...
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Any Spare Change, Guv?
HOORAY FOR THE HOMEWORK CLUB - BUT WHERE’S THE PROFIT IN THAT?Anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with a town called Mansfield in the East Midlands may well find little in this broadside to concern...
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