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In the summer of 1982, while visiting my son, Jesper, in New York City, I decided to call my friend, Betty Dodson, to see how she was doing and to plug into her amazing energy and intellect. She answered the phone and reported she was writing her autobiography, that I was in it and that I should come over for tea and she wo...
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| Down & Out between Edinburgh and Glasgow |
Kenny MacAskill, Orwell, arts funding and some fresh angles of an old question.
"Poverty is what I'm writing about." -G.O. --
When George Orwell voluntarily submitted himself to a life on the low, he discovered two distinct stories in two major cities: Paris and London. In the former, while struggling for day
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NEW! ONE 9 history repeating NOW ONLINE --
we've been there before we're going there again recession depression stories tories and the world spins New Theatre New Art in Gaol Down & Outs Orwell Belk in with Kirsty Gunn Lisa Del Rosso Edward Neville Suhayl Saadi
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| Reviewing the StAnzas 2009 |
Eleanor Livingstone (Artistic Director) and Brian Johnstone (Festival Director) get it. StAnza gets it. I predict that 2009 will be the year that StAnza sets new precedents for literary gatherings througout the UK, if not the world. Two of the most common words at this year's StAnza: SOLD OUT. Yes folks, poetry, old and ne...
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| Greetings from St. Andrews! |
StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival kicked off last night with a inaugural address from First Minister Alex Salmond, and the immolation of sculpter David Mach's Robert Burns match stick head - Rabbie burns... Rabbie burning... Rabbie burnt. Now,the 12th annual festival is well under way… Taking cues from...
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| Tangled Embroideries |
 | The day after Diwali was always the quietest in Amrur. Street dogs, which spent most mornings howling after cyclists, crouched fearfully in garbage shelters. Three-legged autorickshaws that hooted and tooted while ferrying passengers from Amrur to other parts of Bangalore were silent, having been abandoned on street corners...
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| INSIDE POLMONT YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTION |
 | Politicians win elections off the issues. Tabloids make millions selling salacious versions of their stories. No one here denies the facts, but is our Western culture of throw-away people so black & white? Writing by young men behind bars in Scotland’s largest young offenders’ institution.Introduction:As I walke...
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| ONE on OBAMA special |
 | "There's no question that in the next thirty or forty years, a Negro can also achieve the same position that my brother has as President of the United States, certainly within that period of time." — Robert F. Kennedy, 1968 5 November 2008. Approximately 3:15am GMT. Flipping from channel to channel from my...
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| Thoughts on the Present Crisis |
 | Thoughts on the Present Crisis John CalderAlthough my university training was in Political Economy, I have never practised economics, but I well remember what I learned, and my only surprise about the great financial bubble that has burst is that it took so long. I have been expecting it to do so for most of the last decad...
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| Charley Boorman |
 | Let’s get it straight from the start. I have a few personal issues, which are triggered by Charley Boorman’s latest book By Any Means, so please allow me to put my cards on the table.Around 15 years ago, as the UK struggled to come to terms with a previous economic crisis, I decided to cut loose and invest a large part ...
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