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Richard D North.

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Libya and lying about “The Scottish decision”

Sending Mr al-Megrahi home to Libya has produced one of the most interesting muddles and mysteries of our time. I don't think we can trust anyone in authority to tell us what they really think. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Read more...

Published

02 September 2009

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Politics & campaigns, RDN's media outings

Protest shouldn’t break the law

I'm due on the BBC's The Big Questions show in the morning. One of the subjects is protest and in particular the Climate Camp. If you save the planet, can you break the law? Read more...

Published

29 August 2009

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You can’t beat failure

Betty Miller and Henry James both wrote beautifully about the merits of failure. Here are a couple of quotes from a mid-summer mini-orgy of reading. Read more...

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11 August 2009

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Mind & body

ENRON – the show

Hot from ENRON, the dazzling show at Chichester Festival Theatre's Minerva Theatre, one realises that it was a romp with next to nothing useful to say. I imagine it will go down a storm when it transfers to the Royal Court. Read more...

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01 August 2009

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Mind & body

Affluence really isn’t immoral

The BBC's The Big Questions has asked me on to discuss consumerism. Presumably they want me to defend it and I'm pretty happy to do that. Of course, I intend to be a little mealy-mouthed. I am very happy to defend affluence and inequality. I think people do little harm and much good as consumers, but I suppose consumerism is one degree too materialist to be wholly satisfactory.  Read more...

Published

25 July 2009

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Mind & body, RDN's media outings

“BBC’s monopoly eroded.” Two cheers.

I told Radio 5's breakfast show that Lord Carter's proposal of a shift of a small, marginal BBC budget toward the ITV regional news operation at least had the merit of breaking the principle of BBC monopoly on state funding. Otherwise, it's not all that clever. Locals should pay for local journalism, and probably use cheaper dissemination than TV. Read more...

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16 June 2009

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RDN's media outings

Voter (and non-voter) humbug

The current storm about MPs and their allowances, and the cry for Parliamentary reform, contain big dollops of humbug. Since we Brits are quite well-governed, this matters, a bit. Read more...

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06 June 2009

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Politics & campaigns

Karen Blixen’s house at Rungstedlund

This is perhaps the most beautiful interior I have ever seen. It is at once bohemian and aristocratic. Karen Blixen being who she was, it is determinedly unbourgeois. It is of course also a wonderful pilgrimage site. Read more...

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01 June 2009

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Mind & body, On movies

Schiller’s Wallenstein at Chichester

Mike Poulton's latest excursion into adapting Friedrich Schiller provides my first into seeing any of the great German's work. It was a lot more swashbuckling (schlossbuckling, one might say) than I expected. Read more...

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30 May 2009

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On theatre

Don’t reform Parliament too much

The trick is to do as little as possible about Parliament. It's supreme and supremely important and it's as good as its members are feisty and talented. That's it. Read more...

Published

19 May 2009

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