Tag: The Times
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“Down With Oxfam”
In 1968, the author John Braine published his novel, The Crying Game. It is a satirical view of London in the “swinging 60s”, as seen through the eyes of Frank Batcombe, a young, Conservative journalist. One of our hero’s housemates is an eccentric character named Basil. One of the most memorable things about him, is…
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A Little Vocal Difficulty
For me, one of the delights of producing this blog is uncertainty. I don’t know from one week to the next what I’ll be writing about. I know what my post in forty weeks’ time will concern, but apart from today’s effort, nothing in between. This is deliberate. It means that I have enormous flexibility.…
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