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Writing tagged: ‘war’

You cannot be Syriaous!

Blow to Cameron's authority as MPs rule out British assault on Syria.

Published 30-Aug-2013
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: politics, war

Evacuee kids

A quote from a wartime diary mentioning my dad and uncle.

Published 25-Dec-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: dad, liverpool, reminiscences, wales, war

George Orwell fires a Sten gun

From George Orwell's diary, 09-Aug-1942.

Published 10-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: stense, war

Lest we forget

On the 90th anniversary of the Armistice.

Published 12-Nov-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, mum, war

Tactical warfare

The tactics we should have employed on the Somme.

Published 28-Sep-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: grouse, war

Tony's invisible friend

Blair prayed to God over Iraq.

Published 03-Mar-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: politics, religion, war

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On the Moor
On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk

“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist

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