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Looking forward to his retirement in 2015, Arthur has written poetry since childhood and regularly takes part in poetry workshops and ‘open mike’ evenings. More Posts

Line of Duty reaches the end of the line

Last night the final episode of the second series of the police procedural series Line of Duty was aired on BBC2. As I have previously written, I originally came to this piece because of a favourable newspaper review and immediately became hooked. In recent weeks, I have found that many of those I [...]

March 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Falling behind in life’s race

There is or was a smallish – by which I mean A5-sized – magazine called The Chap. It has about it the air of a foppish 1950s-style gentleman’s publication produced by a clique of like-minded ex-public schoolboys as a vanity project with no regard for popular success, i.e. just the sort of [...]

March 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

The pitfalls of cause and effect

As an unhealthily-devoted television watcher, my sphere of interest does not normally extend to police procedural drama series – still less those of the currently-fashionable, high-class, Danish and Scandinavian origin. In that sense, I happily bow to my superiors who contribute to the National [...]

March 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Rejoice! Our strategy is working …

Like all Englishmen good and true, I have 18th September circled in red on my Economist diary. This is the date upon which, hopefully, our friends north of the border will vote resoundingly for Scottish independence. The carefully-worked out strategy of those of us working behind the scenes, not [...]

February 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Postscript to a seaside holiday

With my daughter joining her husband upon a business trip on July 2012, it felt to my wife Beth and I (as grandparents) to step into the breach – as it were – and look after the grandchildren for a two week period. Having previously done a sea cruise and trips to Wales and Cornwall in the [...]

February 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

A once-in-a-lifetime visit?

Just occasionally, ever since I was a small boy with a vivid imagination – and rather in the style of mountaineer George Mallory who is said to have replied “Because it’s there” when asked why he wished to climb Mount Everest – I have actively considered making a pilgrimage to [...]

January 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Living is bad for your health

I am happy to confess (truthfully) to being a modest imbiber of alcohol. For the most part, I can take it or leave it. That said, last night I went out for a pub drink, via an introduction by a mutual acquaintance, with a chap who has written a book on a subject that combines WW1 and sport. [...]

January 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

From the vaults of time

For my formal debut as Poetry Editor, I have decided to go back in history to what – in my humble opinion – has now become a ‘lost classic’, due entirely to my inability to remember its full extent. History is littered with strange originations of verse and poetry, none perhaps more strange [...]

December 13, 2013 // 0 Comments

Things to keep in mind

A true, unvarnished story. Yesterday I drove to see my eighty-eight year old father at his home, a few days in advance of a hernia operation he is to undergo next week. Over a coffee we went through the schedule for the day – i.e. the time I will arrive at his home to collect him; the time he is [...]

November 21, 2013 // 0 Comments

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THE POETRY OF LYRICS (OR NOT)

I confess for my sins that I spent last night relaxing in front of what I regard as television at its best: undemanding pap for weary brain cells. Halfway through ‘STRICTLY COME DANCING’ on BBC1 – for yes, that is one programme I watched – presenter Claudia Winkleman introduced a [...]

November 11, 2013 // 0 Comments

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