1986 – Reconnected
1986 – Reconnected For a very long time, there was no separate landmass, or ‘island girt by sea’, which today we call the British [...]
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Time for an Upswing
Time for an Upswing? Twenty-one years ago, I bought Robert Putnam’s book, Bowling Alone. It was an expansion of an earlier essay, Bowling Alone: [...]
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Good News 2 – Regeneration
Good News 2 – Regeneration Twenty years ago, I was the proud owner of a new house sitting on a few acres outside the [...]
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1985 – A Death At Sea
1985 – A Death at Sea Some topics are so vast that to contemplate addressing them in a four-page blog is more than foolish, [...]
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1984 – Big Brothers
1984 – Big Brothers I can’t remember when I first read George Orwell’s 1984. First published back in 1949, it is a horribly depressing [...]