Notes on the future of America

On Wednesday 14th November my firm hosted a discussion between Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG (UK Ambassador to the US, 2007/12) and Justin Webb (BBC Today Programme Presenter and BBC North American Editor, 2006/09) at the Royal Automobile Club in London. Here is a summary I wrote up that afternoon: 1. The 2012 Presidential Election Result The satirical news […]

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Notes on running in the dark

An email from someone called Piers White  tells me that the start is “in the west of the park (Boules area)”. But it is a black night and the park is plagued by licks of mist and off the lit pathways it is dark enough to think about muggers. I jog around heading west and looking for the start. […]

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Notes on war, and peace

From the Foreword to ‘The Battle of the Narrow Seas’, A History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea, 1939/45’ by Lt. Cdr. Peter Scott (Hazel, Watson & Viney Ltd., 1945) – “a history of the struggle for the control of the Narrow Seas which stretch north-east and south-west from the […]

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Notes on Verity

Verity is 65 feet tall and possesses a porno sexuality. She has the lippy, skittish look of a school girl cute enough and dumb enough to get herself into trouble. She’s got a bun in the oven and a pony tail and in the middle of a hail storm shrieking in off the Atlantic not […]

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