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July 14, 2013 Digital / Thought

Twitter and road rage

Imagine your life reduced to 140 characters; trying to articulate the sum total of your being in a few pithy,

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July 14, 2013 Thought

Britain and its wet dreams

Dreams matter. Freud said that they express the fulfilment of a wish. But outside any clinical or professional psychological analysis,

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July 14, 2013 Film

Gaslight: the light of the mind

Like many of the pies in which David O. Selznick had his fat little fingers, George Cukor’s 1944  Gaslight  has

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July 14, 2013 Film

Richard Curtis: the Great British Myth Maker

A Richard Curtis film set in Middlesbrough is a cinematic oxymoron. Even Milton Keynes seems unlikely. Mainly because foppish glamour,

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January 26, 2012 Uncategorized

Port: a guide for furtive alcoholics

Occasionally people like to debate life’s great inventions. There are some things that make it into this debate easily: penicillin,

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January 19, 2012 Uncategorized

Before the alien comes out of the mountain

It’s 2012. A new year. A chance to start anew. There is still plenty of time to get things done,

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