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Thursday, 21 July 2011
Glastonbury
During the Galastonbury festival there is a two-mile aircraft exclusion zone around the site. I flew around it a couple of times and it is a...
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Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Paradise
My father is very ill. We sat together a few evenings ago, holding hands and looking out onto his garden, his creation over fifty years, in ...
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Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Tracy Emin
I had never seen an exhibition of Tracy Emin’s work before. No one could miss a life lived so publicly, so the exhibition at the Hayward Gal...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Chief Executive Pay
Finally it appears that the shareholders of public companies are beginning to say enough is enough and are beginning (it is only just happen...
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Saturday, 11 June 2011
The Jerry Can
The jerry can is a genuine design classic; classic in that in form and function it is beyond improvement. It is difficult to see how it coul...
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Becoming a horse
David Eagleman is well worth reading. He is a neuroscientist – but also something of a polymath and thinker of startling originality. What c...
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Syria - a close shave
Reading about the demonstrations in Syria, I was reminded of our own visit to Homs – one of the centres of rebellion – a few years ago. We h...
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