Deira Diary
An account of the UK, and the wider (and sometimes much narrower) world that I inhabit
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
The Who's 'It's Hard' - reassessed after 36 years
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Designed by Richard Evans ; released by Polydor/Warner Bros Why is one of The Who’s most diverse, most accomplished albums, so unknow...
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
England doesn't deserve to win
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For those who insist that sportspeople just want to practise a profession that has nothing to do with politics, and that politics should ...
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Sunday, July 1, 2018
The Prisonaires Live at the Electric Palace, Hastings
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“Is this a supergroup?” asked a friend of mine as we took our places last night in the third row of this tiny, historic , yet barely half...
Friday, February 9, 2018
Labour's forgotten the 100th anniversary of working class men getting the vote
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The Labour Party has forgotten that it's also the 100th anniversary of working class men getting the vote, all of them. In 2018 Lab...
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Monday, October 2, 2017
Dubai déjà vu all over again
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I took the Dubai Metro for the first time, past hundreds of towers, many familiar, some not, standing proud like brazen priapic shrines to...
Monday, August 14, 2017
Folkstack Lightnin' fire up The Rodmill
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Folkstack Lightnin’ are a newly-formed electric folk and blues trio, specialising, as their name suggests, in English folk and Americ...
Monday, June 26, 2017
Lessons from Death Row
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“The most precious thing you have is what you cannot hold in your hand” is a paraphrase of something Steve Champion (Adisa Kamara) wrote a...
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