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Travel, science, books. Whatever I feel like, really.

Sunday, 29 May 2016

When the best lack all conviction

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On a sunny day in September 2001 I answered the phone for an American colleague who had stepped out. It was her mother, calling from the St...
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Saturday, 14 May 2016

A dispatch from Seething Wells

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Well, from New York, actually, but I am seething. I have just read an item in The Guardian of May 13 2016 by Simon Jenkins headed: “Books...
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Sunday, 1 May 2016

The English Defence League. Served hot and cold

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The English Defence League. Who are they? What are they defending? Are they “terrible people”, as David Cameron said? And whatever they are...
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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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