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Some time ago I decided to stop following the news on the grounds that I would be better informed if I didn’t.  This has worked very well and now even though I have only the vaguest notion of what is going on I feel I have a better grip on current affairs than I did

November 16, 2013

I was born in Eastbourne on the south coast of England, which is the location of a Napoleonic fortifcation called the Redoubt. When I was growing up it was the home of an exceptionally kitsch model village and a rather charming aquarium called the Blue Grotto. This was an eccentric use for an historic monument,

November 10, 2013