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Yesterday the media was full of reports on the study into ageing undertaken by Duke University in North Carolina published in the journal Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences. Based upon the health and broader lives of 1,000 New Zealanders born in 1972 or 1973 in Dunedin, the researchers [...]

July 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

The gap between reality and ‘how things should be’

At the outset of this piece I wish to stress that it merely represents my opinion and gut instinct. You could argue that opening with a statement such as this is nothing but a slimy ‘get out’ device designed to avoid or deflect accusations that what I’m about to express has no basis in [...]

July 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

None of this makes sense

Let’s just get this right. Yesterday in its referendum the Greek nation backed its Prime Minister and thereby rejected the latest EU-led bailout deal, which the EU claims was no longer on the table anyway. Mr Tsipras will now claim that he has a democratic mandate for ‘no more austerity’ and [...]

July 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Religion and faith has plenty to answer for

Writing this as a self-proclaimed atheist, though not a proselytising one, it seems to me that such is human existence that as many people as possible believing in something is a good thing. Believing in anything, I mean. In a God or indeed gods, in a common set of humanitarian principles, in the [...]

July 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Wednesday at noon

On days spent at home I tend to potter about my business accompanied by either Radio Five Live or the television broadcasting in the background. On Wednesday this week, shortly before noon, having already arrived late for an early doors meeting on the other side of south-west London because I had [...]

July 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

A night at the Albert

Gladys Knight – or the ‘Empress of Soul’ as she has long been known, presumably a title that about twenty-five years ago caused Michael Jackson to suddenly begin calling himself the ‘King of Pop’ – played to a sold-out the Royal Albert Hall last night. As your local reporter, I was on [...]

July 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Over there (for a short while)

As previewed in my previous post, I spent yesterday in France in the company of the Rust’s Mr Elkins, whose famous enthusiasm for things WW1 knows little bounds and prompts in him both a boyish gushing enthusiasm and verbal diarrhoea of biblical proportions. I was aware of this before our [...]

June 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

A wedding party

Yesterday I travelled from the coast to Newbury for a party to celebrate an old uni friend’s daughter’s wedding. There was an interesting article in the week on the pressure put on the modern wedding guest in terms of time and money. Polly is in deepest Devon with Grania  as part of [...]

June 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Part of the team at last!

Today I am going on an expedition into northern France, accompanying Henry Elkins on one of his WW1 ‘recce’ research trips. He’s been engaged to guide a special family group tour at the back end of September, based around the centenary of the Battle of Loos and then the Somme in September [...]

June 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Quality versus commercial success

Sometimes those of us who are content to confess “I know nothing about Art [with a capital ‘a’] but I know what I like …” are condemned for either copping out and/or being Philistines, but that’s life and anyway so what? Personally, for example as regards music I am devoid of both [...]

June 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

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