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Odin’s Police Force

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Or… What life might be like today if the Vikings had won? The problem, I think, is that we are suckers for novelty. It gives us a frisson of cosmopolitanism to use words like frisson. We are suckers for words like suckers. It gives us an air of imagined sophistication to walk boldly into the [...]

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Two Thousand And Twelve

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2012 puzzles me – as did 2008, and 2004 and just about every Olympic year. Once every four years something seems to happen to all these minor sports, and all these boring sports, and all these sports that most normal human beings don’t normally give a damn about.

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Futurebook Innovation Workshop

“There’s an amazing wealth of projects that are being put out, but people aren’t really talking about, or getting to grips with why they’re working or not working.”

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Bill Buckley Is In The Restaurant – Mango Lounge Reviewed

It was pretty and it was light. I’d call it a woman’s dish if I had the courage.

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Bill Buckley Is In The Restaurant – Elaichi Reviewed

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Ryan Giggs and Imogen Thomas’s super-injuncted passion pales into insignificance beside Joe and Jane Soap’s freely declared feelings for prawn korma and chicken tikka masala.

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Do you remember when it was better?

I’m all about creating memories, a whole bank of them to draw on when I am old and on my stoop sipping a whisky sour for breakfast to stave off the pain of arthritis.

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Stepping Into Kate Mosse’s Shoes

I wasn’t perfect, but, as one audience member tweeted, “Lisa Gee may not be K Mosse but holding her own”. That’s good enough, isn’t it?

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The Alien’s Guide To Alcohol

I just don’t like the taste of most alcohol, apart from the sort of stuff old ladies drink in thimble-sized glasses at Christmas.

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Too Cool For School: why we should all have a DS in our handbag

I think the definition of cool for the discerning grown-up has to be taking out your DS while you have your feet nibbled by fish.

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The Astral Whirlpool

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Alas…the whirlpool pull, too much …she dragged us close and ever in, a tide so harsh, vampiric bite, giant jaws, opening, closing, succubus demon, she sucked us down to her abyss.

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