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Ageing ballerina eyes new career

December 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments

One doesn’t want to be ungallant but 33 is fairly long in the tooth for a chorus ballerina*. If you’ve not collected the rich businessman by that point one is going to have to think about working as a second career. Mariafrancesca Garritano, 33, has broken the unwritten code of silence – which she fears [...]

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On the subject of new books

November 15th, 2011 · 6 Comments

Matthew Illsely, reader of this blog (and thus, of course, a good guy) has a thriller out on Kindle. More Dangerous State than Courageous and quite probably with more accurate economics in it. It’s not about economics, of course, it’s a thriller. Not that having more “accurate economics” is going to be difficult. The Pogo [...]

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Galloway and the Borders

November 5th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Galloway and the Borders is, I’m told, the book with the best description of the subsidy regime for spruce planting in the UK and also of the history of it. I therefore need a copy of this book but it seems to be out of print. Second hand copies are £50. Which seems a tad [...]

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We like publishers

November 1st, 2011 · No Comments

So go and see what exciting free books this one is offering.

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You probably should order this book.

September 27th, 2011 · No Comments

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An interesting use of the word “credible”

September 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment

as part of an otherwise entirely credible series by respected left figures such as Richard Seymour, Nina Power and Laurie Penny.

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Had to be called that, didn’t it?

September 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments

A former inmate cook who made the last meals for prisoners at the Huntsville unit, where Texas executions are carried out, wrote a cookbook several years ago after he was released. Among his recipes were Gallows Gravy, Rice Rigor Mortis and Old Sparky’s Genuine Convict Chili, a nod to the electric chair that once served [...]

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Saatchi sues his publisher

August 27th, 2011 · 5 Comments

But what a very strange thing to sue about: His contract with Phaidon is, he claims, a restraint of trade because it seeks to ban him from working on other projects with different publishers. The owner of the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea says he made two agreements with Phaidon in 2009 for books provisionally called [...]

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Giggle of the day

July 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Men, by and large, leave this subject alone. Somewhere it’s a given that men don’t have anything too reflective to say about sex, or they feel silenced by feminists. Where is the male Suzanne Portnoy, the male Melissa P? What men will write honestly about their highs and lows, their triumphs, their sexual sorrows? What [...]

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On the subject of Chris Mooney

July 1st, 2011 · 4 Comments

and conclude that ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. Yes, Mr. tendentious English major without an understanding of standard errors, it is.

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John Naughton and me

June 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment

A week or two back John Naughton made a reference to something I’d written for The Register. OK, prance, preen etc. So I know that Naughton reads The Register and that he’s even known to read (some) of what I write there. So I see his column today. And it covers the very subject I [...]

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How to milk an almond

June 17th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Fun looking book from David Friedman. Explanation here and download here. Some of the Moorish/Iberian techniques and combinations, if not the actual recipes, look familiar from the modern day Algarve. For those seriously into cooking could be fun to try out a dish or two.

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Clare Jacob, author of the novel, ‘Ophelia in Pieces’, explains the obstacles women still face in pursuing successful careers as barristers.

June 14th, 2011 · 4 Comments

But on the whole, because a barrister’s performance in court is so open to scrutiny and objective judgement, the good, male or female, will succeed. So, err, none then. Or at least none specific to women. So what’s the point of the whole article other than to plug Ms. Jacob’s novel? One wonders which executive, [...]

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Sesame Street, Friends and Happy Days are being used to promote secret left wing messages, according to a new book.

May 30th, 2011 · 4 Comments

He’s right you know, that Ben Shapiro, absolutely right. Look, for example, at this propaganda from Sesame Street: Music is there to be enjoyed by those of all races and ages. Such subversion of all that is good and holy, eh?

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Towel Day was yesterday

May 26th, 2011 · 5 Comments

90% of the world will have no idea what peeps are going on about. The other 10% will, as in the comments here, be serving up some of the best comic scenes ever written. The radio show was better than the TV one and possibly better than the novels. As for the movie…..yurk.

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Snigger

May 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments

There are books on our shelves we haven’t read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life. The terrible grief of the dying as they realise their last hour is upon them and they [...]

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On the attribution of witticisms

April 6th, 2011 · 11 Comments

It’s fairly standard practice that over time good little phrases, sayings, witticisms, get attributed to the wrong people. As who actually said what to whom disappears into the mists of history it’s as if there’s a form of gravitational force attracting the attribution of this or that to just one or two historical figures. Which [...]

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Helping out a new author

April 1st, 2011 · 5 Comments

For those of you with Facebook accounts, please go and like this: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stephen-West/214360245248176?sk=wall Now for the favour: once a “fan” page gets at least 25 likes, you get certain extras from Facebook, such as a custom name. If you have a Facebook account, I’d like to ask you to click on the above link, and [...]

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Books not to read

March 29th, 2011 · 4 Comments

22 Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth A defining moment in Jewish American literature now most famous for a masturbation scene featuring a piece of liver. Disappointingly, this is not as interesting as it sounds.

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Timmy elsewhere

March 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments

I get a rather nice review of the book in the Galveston “Daily News”. Many of Worstall’s conclusions are contrary to the conventional wisdom, but Worstall arrives at them by starting with the positions presented by major environmentalists. He then pares away the demonstrably wrong. Next, he starts with the solutions postulated by environmentalists and [...]

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