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What’s the use of an agent?
Why do so many authors, artists, musicians, actors, sportspeople and entertainers of all kinds have agents to represent them? Why don’t...
Richard Pooley
6 min read
The Final Furlong
A long time ago, and in another place (alright, it was up to a few weeks ago and in the now sadly defunct Shaw Sheet magazine) I was...
Stoker
5 min read
Mustafa Said in Edinburgh
The Hub’s African look is down for this Arabic event, speckled with filters recalling the silhouetted fretwork of Oriental screens...
Tina Moskal
2 min read
A cry of anger from the back of beyond
The death last month of Shaw Sheet, the magazine I used to write for, made me review some of the 89 articles I contributed to it. One...
Richard Pooley
8 min read
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መልካም አዲስ ዓመት[1] Happy New Year 2017
I am writing this on the first day of 2017 in the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar. In the Western calendar it is September 11, a day that...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
6 min read
Ms Micawber?
In April 2020 Sir Keir Starmer became Leader of the UK’s Labour Party and leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. That means that, in...
Stoker
5 min read
Mushroom Diplomacy
Japan, South Korea and North Korea share a troubled history. Japan’s colonial era and subsequent treatment of its occupied countries left...
Eric Boa
6 min read
All the History You Ever Needed
What does a prolific author and television presenter of popular histories, biographies, novels and children’s books but who has also...
Michael Carberry
6 min read
Am I a tourist?
My immediate reaction to that question is “certainly not” or at least “I hope not”. I had to search online for a definition of the word...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
5 min read
Immigration: we need to stop the racist rhetoric.
The article by my fellow contributor, Lynda Goetz, in last month’s Only Connect, entitled "We MUST reduce immigration...
Michael Carberry
12 min read
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