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Ethnic Food

Posted on March 22, 2021 by odeboyz
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Film Review: The Apartment ~ Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine (1960)

Posted on March 22, 2021 by odeboyz

Billy Wilder, the director, cast a satirical eye over the sleaze and corruption of office work in New York. In the hands of another director it could have been very dark. The fundamental misogyny of American life at that time … Continue reading →

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Getting a job in an Estate Agency*

Posted on March 18, 2021 by odeboyz

When applying for a job as an estate agent, the interviewer worried that my CV was a bit small. I said actually it’s really cosy and I was immediately hired. * Estate agent = real estate in US Alex Kealy … Continue reading →

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Michael Gove and the Politics of School Uniform

Posted on March 18, 2021 by odeboyz

We will support schools to introduce traditional blazer-and-tie uniforms, prefects and house systems.1 Michael Gove, parliamentary debate, 2010 Background Michael Gove, alumni of Robert Gordon College, Aberdeen, parades traditional values, which he claims to epitomise. He’s a Conservative cabinet minister. … Continue reading →

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Nazi SS Doctors and the CIA: post 1945

Posted on March 15, 2021 by odeboyz

“They [CIA doctors] did, however, benefit from the guidance of Camp King’s staff doctor, Walter Schreiber, the former surgeon general of the Nazi army, who had overseen research at concentration camps in which prisoners were frozen, injected with hallucinogens, and … Continue reading →

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President Kennedy’s Favourite Nazi

Posted on March 15, 2021 by odeboyz

The Allies had an amoral attitude towards Nazi scientists. They were an intellectual elite and were helped to leave Germany thereby by-passing the Nuremburg Trials. Many would have been convicted and, some, would have been sentenced to death. They had … Continue reading →

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Misplaced kindness

Posted on March 11, 2021 by odeboyz

My friend only eats ‘ethical meat’. Animals who’ve lived a happy life. That’s all wrong. Ethical meat eaters should eat unhappy animals. Ismo Leikola, Edinburgh Festival 2015 (slightly altered)

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Thirty Minutes That Changed My Life. Leeds, 1953

Posted on March 11, 2021 by odeboyz

As a child I suffered from severe asthma. Leeds, at that time, was a heavily polluted city drenched in soot from factories and domestic coal fires, which was disastrous for people’s health. The result for me was attendance at Junior … Continue reading →

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True love just left the building

Posted on March 8, 2021 by odeboyz
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Book Review: Robin Sloan ~ Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore (2012)

Posted on March 8, 2021 by odeboyz

I’d read two books by favoured authors consecutively and had a Monty Python moment – I wanted something ‘completely different’. But what? So I did a search for an elusive ‘completely different’ book by putting key indicators into Mr Google. … Continue reading →

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