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I would like to personally thank everyone who played a part in making the 122nd Whitstable Carnival one of the best ever. To be clear, while I was definitely the front man for the whole… Continue reading Whitstable Carnival 2019: a personal view
It’s a question of what you think science is for. Continue reading Let’s go back to the Moon
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It was our Chair, Belinda Murray, who first made me aware of the meaning of “culture”. She said that originally the word had referred to the organisms that people would carry with them when they… Continue reading The carnival belongs to our town and no one else
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Lino print, “May Day” by Ben Sands, signed artist’s proof, 1987, available to buy this weekend It’s just over three weeks to go to the Carnival, so you’ll excuse me if my next few columns… Continue reading Carnival: only three weeks to go
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Photograph courtesy of Andrew Hastings It’s been a busy fortnight for the Carnival Association. Firstly there was the rush to get the programme finished. If it hadn’t been for my brother-in-law, Matthew Valentine, I don’t… Continue reading Whitstable Carnival: taking possession of the Invicta model
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Janet Street-Porter has been writing about Whitstable again. The bulk of her column in Saturday’s i-newspaper was about the new chief executive of John Lewis, Sharon White, the first black woman to run a large… Continue reading Whitstable Shops: how many more are under threat?
It is the poor and most vulnerable who are being made to pay Continue reading Toothache
We need a new imagination, of an ecologically sustainable future, living with nature, as opposed to against it Continue reading Agnosticism for Dummies
Let the beat of my heart be the drumbeat of time. Let the pulse of my blood be the rhythm of time. Here in the moment let me live Continue reading Invocation of Hermes
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“Was the ghost of David Elliott trying to contact us by electronic means?” Mauncell Forts: “like the rusting relics of some ancient alien invasion which took place centuries ago” It’s been a memorable week. Firstly… Continue reading Haunted Maunsell
