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Tuesday, January 03, 2023

Robert Caro's editor comes out to take his curtain call

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If, like me, you've been waiting years for the fifth and final volume of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography the announcement of...
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July 26th, 1966 was the day when football first became compulsory

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According to Two Brothers by Jonathan Wilson, when Bobby and Jack Charlton were both playing for England in the semi-finals of the 1966 Wor...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

An old music paper won't ever let you down

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We've been talking about greatcoats on the pod . In the late sixties and early seventies every male student or head would be wearing one...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

On not watching this World Cup

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I haven’t been watching this World Cup. I’d like to say this was because I objected to the naked corruption which led FIFA to award this tou...
Friday, December 09, 2022

What do Charles Dickens and Ray Davies have in common?

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  "The Turning Point"  is about what Charles Dickens did in the year 1851. This was the year of the Great Exhibition. It was the h...
Sunday, December 04, 2022

How "Revolver" felt in 1966. How it feels now

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I was on a school trip to France when England won the World Cup in 1966.  When we returned the following week there was a mysterious-looking...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Bob Dylan, Michael Palin, the auto-pen and me

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What most intrigues me about the Bob Dylan’s automated signature story is the implication that resorting to the auto-pen is standard practi...
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Thursday, November 10, 2022

Never in the field of personal finance has so much been owed to so many by one man

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Finally got round to reading "No More Champagne" , David Lough's book about Churchill and his money. This confirmed me in my v...
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