Archive for September, 2006
Horse’s arse
At the protest in Manchester on 23/9. Absurd numbers of police were present.
Breaking radio silence
Great news for sellers of balloons, party poppers and champagne! Stock up now before all these items sell out this time next year!
I’ll be back in a bit. Just need to dust off all the cobwebs around this blog.
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Planned books:
- Pavel and I by Dan Vyleta
- Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe by Nicholas Crane
- Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
- Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 by E.J. Hobsbawm
- Das Reich: The March of the 2nd Panzer Division Through France, 1944 by Max Hastings
Current books:
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam by Charles Palliser
Recent books:
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- Paperweight by Stephen Fry
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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Consider that the study of history is the very opposite, is the very counteraction of making it.
— , Waterland
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