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St.Paul’s Cathedral

AA Gill has a fine piece about St.Paul’s Cathedral in the latest Sunday Times. In a city with many iconic buildings, it is the most iconic of all — hence its prominence in the photograph at the head of this blog. I confess I have yet to visit it. It’s one of those things that’s [...]

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Trade Unions and Subversive Humour

A brief review of what I think is the worst piece of academic writing I’ve ever read–about the use of subversive humour in the workplace by a couple of Scottish university academics.

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In Bed with Ariel Leve

Ariel Leve, not to be confused with Ariel Levy, is an expatriate Brit who has an angst fuelled life in New York. She is a brilliant and funny Jewish girl. When she writes well she is sublime, but occasionally, she is just a terrible self-pitying mess.

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A Devilish Task

This question is answered: What kind of person would go around tearing the last few pages out of detective novels?

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Funniest Book I Never Finished

How I failed to finish a very funny book and have never seen a copy since. It’s one to look out for.

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