The Eye of the Beholder

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Jim, Nye and Dick - Labour's secret farmers
Keir Starmer's massive fall-out with Britain's farmers might have seemed very odd to Labour leaders of the '50s and '60s
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Eighty years later - and still there are those who deny the truth
The VE Day celebrations are already under way for the 80th time, but the other day I read - right here on Substack - somebody undermining the truth of…
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Sun city?
Why is Cambridge apparently the epicentre of sundials?
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Dieu et Roi!
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Eighty years later - and still there are those who deny the truth
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Phantom Letter Writers
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"Gasping death-rattle of mediocrity..."
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I'm worried about eggs...
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My date with a bird in Hackney
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I'm worried about eggs...
Not the silly worry some people have that they might be bad for you, I'm worried there might not be enough eggs to go round.
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My date with a bird in Hackney
But my wife understands...
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Tough egg, with a soft centre...
.... will America's modern-era Raymond Chandler ever make it big in Britain?
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Simply Capital
Reflections on the privileges of life as a part-time Londoner
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Can you re-house an elderly museum exhibit?
After cats and dogs, now it is old heritage items looking for a 'forever home' as cash runs out
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Phantom Letter Writers
The great detective is a global icon - but surely everybody knows he is just a work of fiction?
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Dieu et Roi!
A French civil war, now largely ignored by Paris, almost fractured the nation's fraternité
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The Eye of the Beholder
The Eye of the Beholder
It's not just beauty which is in the Eye of the Beholder - I write about anything which catches my attention, as I amble through the worlds of art, history, politics and anywhere else I like.
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