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Friday, 29 May 2026

Short fiction: A Difficult Life

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Around midday the sun came round to the gap where the Masonic Hall had been and shone into the church through the two remaining panes of sta...
Friday, 23 February 2024

Attlee, Bevin and the New Jerusalem

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The next UK government will inherit a mess, but not as bad as Clement Attlee did in 1945. Yet the Attlee government not only coped. It made ...
Saturday, 24 January 2015

Being beastly to the Germans

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On January 17 1947, a book review by George Orwell appeared in Tribune . “I hope everyone who can get access to a copy will take at least a ...
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Mike Robbins is the author of six books: The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán (2014), a novel; The Nine Horizons (2014), a collection of travel pieces; Three Seasons, a trio of novellas; Even the Dead are Coming (2009), a memoir of life as a volunteer in Eastern Sudan; Crops and Carbon (2011), about agriculture and climate change; and a novella, Dog! (2015). He was born in London but has lived in many countries. (Pic: S. Ligabue)
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