Sunday, 27 June 2021

The Cerne Giant drinks beer! Ganpati drinks milk!

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The Cerne Giant on his Dorset hillside The Cerne Giant (pictured above) is one of England’s most cherished icons. He is a chalk figure etche...
Sunday, 20 June 2021

Is The Umbrella Academy a remake of The Sound of Music?

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The Umbrella Academy - Now on Netflix The Sound of Music - circa 1965 Spoiler Alert Season 1 of The Umbrella Academy is great. It features s...
Sunday, 23 May 2021

Can writers actually write together? Evidence from Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky and the Aussies called Alice.

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Can writers actually write together? Can writers jam together the way members of a rock or jazz band might, to create something better than ...
Sunday, 16 May 2021

Monty Python's The Life of Brian. (Almost) Starring Jiddu Krishnamurthy

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Jiddu Krishnamurthy was the chosen one. He was the messiah. He had been anointed as the messiah, as the World Teacher, the new Maitreya, by ...
Sunday, 9 May 2021

Lamenting the loss of Kalami, Scramoge and Scackleton, while celebrating the triumph of Hextable, Scraptoft and Corriecravie

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This blogpost started as an elegy for words from The Meaning of Liff  which are no longer relevant. Consider Kalami : The ancient Eastern ar...
Sunday, 25 April 2021

Finding Malgudi in the Mediterranean, with Victoria Hislop

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Since I can’t physically holiday on the Mediterranean this summer, I’m doing the next best thing and reading about Mediterranean holiday loc...
Saturday, 24 April 2021

Paul Kennedy's Book Cover - The Fine Art of Being Wrong

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This has to be one of my favourite book covers of all time: That illustration on the bottom right so crisply summarises how easy it is for...