BLOGS

Renewable hope: 10 lessons after a planning committee considers wind turbines

It was a long and often rough road which led to a special meeting of the South Norfolk Planning Committee on Wednesday 8th December to decide whether three wind turbines should be erected on the land between the villages of...

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Modern love is just lust in the ether

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Like the hula-hoop, skateboarding and computer games, sexting is one of those teenage fads which has spread unexpectedly into the adult world. There was a time when talking dirty by text – or, more challengingly, within the 140-character form of...

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Song of the week: D’You Remember the Evening?

Once when I played this song, a woman in the audience advised me to seek psychiatric help. Derek Hewitson is on lead guitar. D'You Remember the Evening? by TerenceBlacker

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Jim Morrison – the rock star who flashed for freedom

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It must have been something of a shock for those attending a global-warming rally this week to find themselves caught up in an international debate about a dead rock star's penis. Before turning to the state of the planet, the...

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We grow kinder as we get older

To an outsider, it would have seemed a  normal enough gathering: 25 chaps of a certain background, of a certain age, at a gentlemen’s club in London.  Around the long table, there was the usual mix of banterers and jokers,...

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Divorced, and back on the couch

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The co-author of Families and How to Survive Them has embarked upon his Alimony Tour. One of the comic themes of this travelling one-man show derives from his divorce from his third wife Alyce, and the expensive settlement which followed....

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Chanson de la semaine: I’d Rather Be French

Here's a song dedicated to the expat community.... I'd Rather Be French by TerenceBlacker

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The hidden terrors of the countryside

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It is time for town-dwellers to be very brave. We are about to venture into the perilous unknown. There is a place, according to no less an authority than the director-general of the National Trust, which is "alien" and "full...

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Beware the “vision” and “values” of National Grid plc

What stirring news it has been that the National Grid has performed spectacularly well this year, posting a mind-boggling 45 per cent increase in its pre-tax profits for the first six months of this year. The impression in some quarters...

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Song of the week: Harry Loves Porn

This is the story of Harry, who doesn't care where it's at, so long as love is in the air. Harry Loves Porn by TerenceBlacker

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