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Published Feb ‘09
The award season looms for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog
You’d have thought that sane director would have avoided the script for Slumdog Millionaire like a dinner date with Lucrezia Borgia. A quick synopsis of the film is enough to tell you that. It’s all about how love-bitten young Indian’s life changes in a serendipitous heartbeat [...]
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(Published Feb ‘09)
Oasis and the End of the World
Noel Gallagher is an unlikely prophet. Unfussy and direct, he lectures with measured conviction, a glassy stare, and with those famous Thunderbirds eyebrows raised upwards a fraction, pulling his face into a sneer. It was 11am on 12th September 2001, the day after the end of the [...]
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The Age of Cant
One of the best works of history that I’ve read in the past few years is Ben Wilson’s Decency and Disorder, a lively tour through British society at the end of the eighteenth, and beginning of the nineteenth century.
It was a time when Napoleon was waving his fist at the British from [...]
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Two generations down
I’m lucky enough to have a quite extraordinary grandfather. Charles Kenneth Moore was born in Cheshire a little more than a century ago before being brought up hundreds of miles to the west in the Canadian province of Quebec.
During the 1930s and the early years of the Second World War he was part [...]
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Brave New World
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