Richard D North.

On culture, Nature, liberal issues, monasticism, spirituality

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RDN on BBC WM on AGM

I had a brief outing on the BBC's Birmingham and Midlands local radio station, WM. Is the present flooding caused by manmade global warming, they asked? They had just trailed the Met Office's Julia Slingo as saying that climate change had caused the storms (though actually her remarks, though a little incautious, were fairly nuanced). Anyway, I was extremely cautious.... Read more...

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12 February 2014

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Poem: Poetry

Poetry

A word and a thought,
old friends,
but caught in stale marriages,
meet and fall in love.… Read more...

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03 February 2014

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“American Hustle”: ****

Yes, it's a doubtful four stars - a tentative, deniable accolade. But there was lots to like about this movie... Read more...

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03 February 2014

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On movies

de Botton & misreading “The News”

I have disagreed with most of what I have read of Alain de Botton's work over the years and am not likely to read his latest, The News: A user's manual. In case you do, here is my take on what I understand him to be saying, so you can judge for yourself. In other words, here's a user's manual to his book. Read more...

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03 February 2014

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On books

Poem: A comic Knight

This poems tries to catch how scraps of childhood memory are such an important living background. Read more...

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30 January 2014

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Poem: More arrows

It's curious how youthful optimism hasn't dimmed: I have been around long enough to be sceptical of achieving much now, but my aspirations are neither reduced nor feverish, so far as a I can see. Read more...

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29 January 2014

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Poem: Obituary

Don't we all wonder how our lives will be assessed when we die? Read more...

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29 January 2014

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Poem: Being quite trim

For a couple of years I have been what's called careful about what I eat, and have taken quite a lot of exercise. I wrote this as a kind of vanitas. Read more...

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29 January 2014

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Poem: Love poem #1

Here is the first of a tranche of poems I wrote in 1996 for Valerie, who became my wife in 2013. Read more...

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28 January 2014

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