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Jun.05.2012
Our glorious Diamond Jubilee has vividly revived some of my own brushes with HM. Upon three occasions, I've been privileged to receive an invitation to a Buckingham Palace Garden Party, not, I hasten to clarify, through any personal merit, but because both my husbands happened, in very...
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Dec.19.2008
On Christmas Day, at 3pm GMT, English traditionalists will observe the ritual of viewing the Queen's broadcast to her subjects.
Nowadays, her Speech is pre-recorded. The pattern of our national life has changed and our habits are no longer in sync. Gone are the days when we sat down to eat soon...
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Nov.21.2008
I've been keeping it in for three months and now, finally, I can announce: I am the European regional winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's short story competition. I went to the awards ceremony tonight, it was wonderful, in a beautiful historic building in London, on Pall Mall....
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Nov.02.2008
A few, fairly random thoughts on Sunny Singh's recent post. These aren't intended to have any political coherence.
It seems a little ironic that the 'rivers of blood' metaphor, apparently inspired by Virgil, was coined in the late sixties by Enoch Powell, a British Tory MP whose constituency in...
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