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Language Follies and a HNY
First off: A Happy 2015 to my reader, and thanks for stopping by. Wouldn't it be good if we could clear away some linguistic clutter in 2015? I don't mean the simply daft stuff, I mean the misleading...
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Celine Dion and me - funeral music
The impossibly wealthy and successful Ms Dionis not really my thing, to put it mildly. The whole big voice power ballad overwrought style leaves me cold. But. Many a British funeral is for, or is...
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"Je Suis Charlie" says Gloria Mundi
So, big deal announcement, but:We must all be Charlie, now and always.Such lethal derangement cannot "win" anything. What have these psychopaths achieved? They have caused death, grief and suffering to...
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"Je Suis Charlie" says Gloria Mundi - part 2
Will Self put it neatly on Channel 4 TV news the other evening. He pointed out that if you make freedom of speech (and drawing)a universal, non-negotiable right, you are turning it into something like...
View ArticleGoodbye and hello
I feel this blog is coming to the end of its days, so I am going to sign off in a mo. All my mighty words will still be here until...? Google kills Blogger off? The End of Time?But my very close friend...
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Just a little note en passant to say thank you to those people who visit this blog even though I haven't posted on it for nearly a year. I'm really pleased that there's stuff here that some people (you...
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