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8 September The Queen died today, Thursday, ending the longest reign in British history. Strange words to type, not least because she seemed so immortal to so many. An ever-present, death-defying, emblematic stalwart of the UK. We were prepared for it in the afternoon, with an official statement saying that doctors were concerned for her […]
Written in some attempt to process the awful event… We all watch, dumbstruck, horrified, harrowed, sickened. It’s just before half-time of this third match of the coronavirus-delayed Euro 2020 tournament. Denmark against Finland in Copenhagen. Around 4 or 5pm here in the UK on another baking midsummer day. It’s surreal to see a stadium almost […]
Be outraged or angry about the murder of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe, but look out for the wildlife on your own doorstep. It’s a strange contradiction that you can broadly love wildlife without mourning creatures when they die. You casually accept they must die, it’s the way of things. It just isn’t thought about that much because […]