Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Thursday, November 13, 2014

November - a poem for the season of remembrance

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NOVEMBER The month of remembering - the lines of men in the stubble fields the hideous scramble over a muddy parapet, the cring...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

War Requiem

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I listened this evening to the last part of Britten's War Requiem , in the recording featured here, digitally remastered and sounding ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Notes on a letter from the past.

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I've just been posting another of my father's wartime letters on Letters from the Past . In this one , he is rejoicing at the confir...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Stringent

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My current preoccupation with  Letters from the Past  means I have less time - and fewer thoughts - to post on this blog, but after a flurry...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

The Book Thief

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I've just finished reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. And I mean "just finished", which means that I'm still steeped...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Sliding down the news

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I couldn't help noticing that on tonight's news (Channel 4, 7pm) the attacks on Gaza weren't mentioned till 7.25pm - almost half...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Palestine, Israel and the Just War theory

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How do we cope with the images coming from Gaza? I've just been looking at the guardian's photo gallery , where there is a striking ...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Mixed feelings

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Today was sunny. It is unbelievable the difference this makes to life here: the gloom of a stormy day which merges into darkness in the afte...
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