I had my regular medical yesterday. The usual thing: bloods, weight, blood pressure and of course …
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Apart from from one, or maybe two, occasions in my childhood, and indeed adulthood, I rarely …
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I was surprised to come across the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony last night as I was …
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In my last blog, I made a passing reference to my latest choice of reading, Robert …
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Sitting in the morning sun, reading Robert Hilburn’s brilliant biography of Paul Simon, The Life, a …
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That increasing rarity, a well-argued and intelligent article, appears in today’s Guardian on the subject of …
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And now we go live to the nominations for the 2026 Mercury Prize (all right, it …
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Greetings pop-pickers and welcome to the Friday Music Shuffle, that fun-packed time of the week when …
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We have a standing joke in our house about the alcohol content in booze. Some years …
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When the Trussell Trust, which operates the majority of food banks in Britain, recently announced donations …