IT is a sign of the times we find ourselves in that I attended an online funeral this week. That is not unusual given the current situation, but what perhaps is is that it was the first online funeral I’ve been to and the person who passed away hadn’t suffered with Covid-19. Norman Wasteney was […]
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PERHAPS it’s the effects of the latest lockdown, but I found myself surprisingly emotional during Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony. Standing on the steps of the Capitol, where just two weeks before a rabid rabble had swarmed wearing headgear ranging from woolly hats to combat helmets, MAGA caps to a horned head dress, I saw two
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FAREWELL then Michael Apted. There can’t have been many other filmmakers with as varied a pantheon of work as the British director who died last week aged 79. From James Bond movie The World is Not Enough to Gorillas in the Mist, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Extreme Measures and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of
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YOU might not thank me for saying this. Happy New Year. I’m a cup half full type of person. But just when we hoped to have put the excesses of 2020 behind us – record numbers of coronavirus deaths and cases and national lockdowns, haphazard and apparently knee-jerk decision-making by those running the country and
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