Recently, while cycling through the East Yorkshire countryside, two thoughts came to mind. The first was that we are not a county of music lovers. This I deduced from the number of discarded CDs lying soiled in the hedge bottoms; one every few hundred yards it seemed, for the entire course of a 60 mile [...]
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The Lord Moves In Mysterious Ways
Life occasionally throws up some twisted ironies – you bimble along, thinking you’re getting a handle on things; formulating your own considered views and then, out of the blue, something comes along to turn it upside down.
Take for instance how I came to be married. I met my wife Lucy after writing a newspaper column [...]
Just Like Heaven
Sometimes being late for work is no bad thing. Last Monday I started out half an hour after my normal set-off time and as a result caught an interesting debate on Start The Week that I would have otherwise missed.
It focused on consciousness and immortality and featured such distinguished guests as the philosopher John Gray, [...]
Less Is More … For All Our Sake’s
I have a friend who I only see now at Christmas. He is an old man – past 80 – a former farm labourer and a contemporary of my grandfather’s. I like to see him for a number of reasons; firstly, I enjoy his company greatly. Also, he always plies me with whisky – way more than is [...]
There Must Be More To Life Than Biology Part 2
OK so I lied on Twitter – this isn’t a guest post by award-winning novelist Robert Harris, it was ploy to get you to my website, but it does contain his remarks, which is almost as good.
Those who occasionally read my blog might have caught a post I wrote last month about war and heroism, and [...]
Further Confessions Of A Closet Gentleman
Lurking at the back of my personal effects drawer, behind an assortment of silk handkerchiefs, cufflinks and elastic metal armbands lays my darkest sartorial secret. Although just a narrow band of patterned material, this garment is for me the love that dare not speak its name and as such is something I rarely wear outside my bedroom.
But recently I’ve felt [...]
There Must Be More To Life Than Biology
My grandfather was a true hero, the type we celebrate at this time of the year. Shortly after his career as a schoolboy ended his soldiering career began. He was one of the first Englishmen to fight in World War II and spent its final years’ eeking out a painful existence in the concentration camps, [...]
Shakespeare And The Art Of Making Coffee
I hate TV advertising, on the whole, because it is intrusive. Fine, I recognise it is an integral part of the commercial broadcaster’s business model and from that point of view a necessary evil, but unless it contributes value to my life I generally switch the sound off.
Of course if it’s Uma Thurman trying to [...]
Thoughts On Walking in the Early Morning in Autumn With The Dog
And so I emerge with Pavlovian rigidity to the sound of a bell, weary and fumbling like a punch-drunk boxer, from a slumber that has been anticipating this moment. It is long before dawn. Shuffling, stooped against the cold air and peering out from the smallest apertures my face will allow, I grope through the darkness [...]
The Power Of Collective Responsibility
Hilter, by all accounts, was an oddball. According to psychologists, who are never to be questioned, he despised his father and had a very “complicated” relationship with his mother, all of which led to some peculiar behaviour later in life. I’m paraphrasing of course; other factors were involved, but you know what I’m getting at.
He [...]
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Nick is a director at the public relations company in Hull. He helps companies and individuals communicate the messages important to them, ensuring success for their businesses.
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