Deira Diary

An account of the UK, and the wider (and sometimes much narrower) world that I inhabit

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Labour's class coalition coming unstuck over Europe

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Labour’s pragmatism (or waffle/procrastination) over Brexit, argues writer  Nick Cohen , is both psephologically illiterate and ideological...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

'My Favourite Things'

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Is a musically weak and lyrically inane take by Ariane Grande on the Rogers and Hammerstein original anything to be concerned about? ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Control

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Control. Who has it? Not me. Though I could If I chose But I choose not to. I choose to forfeit My right to be myself To ...
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Sunday, February 3, 2019

Joyce, the Cavern and the Pool

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I felt very disrespectful as I tried to tread Joyce off from the soles of my hiking boots onto the floor of the Cavern Club. Mind you thi...
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Sir Harold Wilson and the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool

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We were given a key to the joint entrance to rooms 100 and 101 in Liverpool’s most iconic hotel, The Adelphi . Four years earlier I had onl...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

'V' performed by Jonny Magnanti at the St. Leonard Pub

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Jonny Magnanti is the first actor to interpret Tony Harrison ’s still controversial poem, ‘V’ . Like Tony Harrison, Jonny Magnanti had ...
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Saturday, January 5, 2019

Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America' reconsidered

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Perhaps it’s a matter of age, temperament, and the amount of your adolescence that you spent hiding from your parents. Confident ‘rock’ alb...
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