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Research and rescue

Friday, March 5, 2021

The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RRS James Clark Ross, and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs. — For The Critic

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The Evensong at the End of the World

Sunday, February 7, 2021

On singing evensong for Candlemas, in Stanley Cathedral. — For The Critic

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Quarantined in the Falkland Islands: 2

Sunday, January 31, 2021

The saga continues. — For The Critic

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Crashed and Burnsed

Monday, January 25, 2021

On giving a poetically bad speech to the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka, at the Galle Literary Festival. — For The Critic

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Quarantined in the Falkland Islands: 1

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

From South Asia to the South Atlantic, in the time of Covid. — For The Critic

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Bookselling: my part in its downfall

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Some thoughts on my brief time at Waterstone’s, along with a review of Shaun Bythell’s Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops. — For The Critic

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His race is run

Friday, November 6, 2020

On the late Ben Cross, Harold Abrahams, and the impact Chariots of Fire had on me as a 10-year-old boy. — For The Critic

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None shall sleep

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

A Toscca seminar on potential catastrophe in the Caucasus. — For The Critic

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NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, November 2, 2020

. The Paris Louvre is in future to be guarded by watch-dogs. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, July 13 1908 . A gold coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar has been auctioned for more than $3m dollars. 50% of a man’s hair is gone before it becomes noticeable. Good socialists need not refuse […]

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The One That Got Away – Yadushika Radkakrishnan

Sunday, October 25, 2020

The Sri Lankan fashion photographer and jewellery designer talks about the shot she never got… and one she did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

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