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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...
Stoker
6 min read
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...
Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
5 min read
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...
Richard Pooley
6 min read
France: “A paradise inhabited by people who think they're in hell”
How we sniggered, my wife and I. Before we had even bought our house in the village of Vayrac in the Lot Department in south-west France...
Richard Pooley
7 min read
The Return of the Slow Train
If you are British, and old enough to remember when trains could take you to almost anywhere in the UK on time, you may wish to stop...
Richard Pooley
5 min read
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