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Monthly Archives: November 2020

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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