Dear Emmanuel
That great French export to our country, Eric Cantona, once inadvertently created a lot of interest round here in seagulls by producing a...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Aug 1, 20223 min
Liz and the Doubly Thankful Villages
We die twice; once when we actually die, and once when those who remember us die. As a former soldier, I have developed a little informal...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 4, 20223 min
Love and the Boris Letters
I first came across the concept of love as a phenomenon that reached beyond mere families, when my parents came home one day, rather...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 8, 20213 min
Love your Inner Neanderthal
If you had a load of money to burn, and used some of it to take a sophisticated genetic test, the chances are that you would discover...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 14, 20212 min
Not All Sharks…
You certainly don’t need to be taking any lectures on the underlying fear in all women from a privileged, middle-class, middle-aged man...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 4, 20213 min
Why Kindness Isn’t
I’m 61, and I’m in love with a tee-shirt. I mean love in the sense of ‘being deeply committed and connected to someone or something’...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 13, 20213 min
The Tragedy of the Commons
One spring morning in 1832, a political economist from Oxford University found himself staring at a bunch of cattle on a piece of local...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 10, 20203 min
Shooting the Crocodile
You know the deal. We need to shoot the crocodile nearest the boat. If we were not locked down or, as the government prefers us to think...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 22, 20204 min
Priti Patel, me and Apples
We’ve been having a series of events at home to celebrate the accession of Priti Patel, our Home Secretary, to the status of life member...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jul 9, 20202 min
Chairman Mao’s Sparrows
Some time in 1958, Chairman Mao established his ‘Four Pests’ campaign, ordering the extinction of rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows....
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 26, 20204 min
Time for some (very) civil disobedience
‘Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine’, said Henry David Thoreau. He said lots more about civil disobedience, but just...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 20, 20203 min
Time to make your mind up.
On Bonfire Day twenty-eight years ago, I accidentally killed a lapwing, something that I have regretted ever since. It was on Bodmin...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 19, 20204 min
The Piano Tuner and the Kidney Surgeon
One of the tiny costs of freedom is knowing just what to do with all that free speech we have. Please hold that thought for a second....
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 19, 20193 min
A Clear and Present Danger
According to the Today Programme, there is a new post in the British army called SO1 Unacceptable Behaviours. SO1 being the name for a...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 23, 20194 min
Only myself to blame
It’s one of those things you know before you know. A cold hand grips your intestines and chills them. You feel slightly sick before you...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Aug 27, 20196 min
Me and Graham: it’s official.
Me and Graham are thinking of moving in together. Oh, don’t take on so. The signs have been there for weeks, months even. Those furtive...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 12, 20193 min
Wind in the Bloody Willows
‘More often than not’ said the moral philosopher Peter Singer, ‘there is a compromise between ethics and expediency.’ Too bloody right...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 3, 20194 min
The viciousness of piano lessons
You can have enough Laurel and Hardy. If the world is divided into those who appreciate their comedy genius, and those who believe their...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 3, 20193 min
The (very) dark side of Walnut Whips
A single moment fifty odd years ago convinces me that ESP is a thing, a real thing. And it has everything to do with walnut whips. When I...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 11, 20183 min
One way to sort this mess.
Become an activist again. Yes, you. Fifty years ago or so, moderate people on the left, the right or even the centre started to give up...
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