Lost in the Labyrinth of Language
This little story starts with me waiting nervously in the anteroom of a Magistrates Court in Brighton in 1975, not because of any crime,
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Richard Pooley
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As Others See Us...and History
In “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”, one of Robert Burns’ most amusing yet profound poems, written in 1786, the...
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Stoker
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King’s Lynn and the Meaning of Nowhere
We must begin with abject apologies to Jan Morris; that great writer, doyenne of travellers, and Celtic poet, whose book title we have...
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Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
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The First Internationalist
For the last six months or so, I have been engaged in a mammoth reading project which is the biggest one I have ever undertaken...
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Richard Pooley
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Hosting Ukrainians – one year on
"Odesa. The doctor I went to in London. Remember? I read this morning: her clinic in Odesa was less than a kilometre from where those...
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