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The eyes have it but who cares?
Read more: The eyes have it but who cares?I have always had problems with my eyes and, in the course of a fairly physical as well as intellectual life I have suffered just about every operation on them known to ophthalmologists. If eyes are the windows to the soul, then whatever spiritual essence resides inside must be mutated out of all recognition! … Know More
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Skin Deeper
Read more: Skin DeeperI am writing this on the road back from Cape Coast to Accra. We have just spent the weekend on the beach; long stretches of sand and coconut palms, a few local villagers walking to and from Elmina, a small and delightful fishing port. From the chalet they are silhouettes, carrying large basins full of… Know More
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Covering the Japanese Tsunami, UK style
Read more: Covering the Japanese Tsunami, UK styleI suppose that the more you travel, the less jingoistic you become. I am three thousand miles from the UK these days and it seems like so many light years from home – not! That’s it, really. Home is for me an ephemeral outdated concept, maybe the place of my childhood or childrearing years but… Know More
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It’s life but not as we know it, Captain…
Read more: It’s life but not as we know it, Captain…Leaving aside belief in gods, the hereafter, heaven and hell and the trappings of metaphysics, where are we when we drop, for example, the meta in the last domain? Where are we with science, generally? Do we believe it? The professions are certainly beholden to it. Law now has its forensics, medicine has its pharmaceuticals,… Know More
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Enemies of the People
Read more: Enemies of the PeopleAs Gaddafi unleashes sub-Saharan mercenaries, threatening to kill the children in every family that has protested against his tyranny, Cameron the UK Prime Minister is wandering with a band of British arms dealers around Kuwait. His snake oil salesman’s rhetoric runs along the lines of every country needs to defend its borders. After the Libyan… Know More
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The Courage of Convictions
Read more: The Courage of ConvictionsBravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid is a rather piquant quotation from Franklin P Jones. Watching the domino demonstrations in the Middle East and North Africa where thousands march in the face of guns is a humbling experience. It is too easy to see small figures on a tv screen and… Know More
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History is egg-shaped
Read more: History is egg-shapedWhen I was a boy in Durham I used to go egg collecting. The tallest risk-laden trees for rooks’ eggs, sinking marshy waters for those of the black headed gull and flimsy attic floors for a starling’s ice blue oval. The lure of the colours, shapes and sizes, the art of blowing them, the need… Know More
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On shellfish and the selfish
Read more: On shellfish and the selfishParis in early February. Cold, clear and sunshine arriving by late morning. The whole city has a half-awake feel to it. Somnambulistic shopkeepers powered down, the lights in their eyes barely glinting. But the restaurateurs know that people have got to eat, especially the tourists who have come on cheap breaks and the business people… Know More
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History: It Never Lets You Go
Read more: History: It Never Lets You GoSometimes you encounter these odd triangulations in your life. As if it has all been a dream from which you have woken, temporarily. Three bits of your life juxtaposed, though years apart and from different countries, even continents. I am on a Virgin Atlantic plane heading to London from Accra. This us MA what happened.… Know More
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You too can be a great musician
Read more: You too can be a great musicianBoth of my sons are musicians. One plays and creates using a number of instruments some of which he makes and the other composes using electronics. The older started with piano and the younger with guitar. They went to teachers, off and on until their teens. Somehow both managed to cross that divide into which… Know More