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When crime novelist All Cleeves loses her PC with the only draft of her next novel, she faces the nightmare of every author who has suffered a similar and sometimes catastrophic situation ...
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I came across Dr Glycol recently, waiting his in the checkout queue at a nearby Convenience store.
His basket contained only two items. A pre-cooked chicken and a jar of curry sauce.
"For my evening meal", he explained.
"Do you already have the other ingredients?"
He looked about him carefully.
"All that I need".
Dr Glycol is famed for his cooking recipes, from which he is compiling his cookbook, which he hopes one day to publish. Recognising that my own literary efforts are of a different kind, he told me more about his unusual approach to cooking...
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This second report from the Land of Tweets includes contributions from well-known figures including the big Chief Elon Musk, and Lord Sugar.
It also exposes a cunning prankster and his hilarious attempts to fool Twitter followers with his fake news.
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Wittgenstein’s Poker is a ‘serious’ treatment of ‘a ten-minute argument between two great philosophers’ . This is how the book is described itself on its cover by English authors David Edmonds and John Eidinow.
After the first chapter I already saw it as having features of a detective story. The meeting, which is presented as a critical incident, is described with evidence from interviews with the surviving witnesses.
Readers are taken through the unfolding investigations into the background of the two main characters, two of the era’s most illustrious Austrians, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, at a time shortly after the defeat and death of their even more famous countryman Adolf Hitler.
Their monumental confrontation took place in a crumbling committee room in King’s College, Cambridge, in October 1946. Popper, a visiting speaker possibly encouraged by celebrity philosopher Bertrand Russell, had arrived with his intention of demolishing the theories of the home favourite Wittgenstein. The verbal battle deteriorated into a possible assault as Wittgenstein seized a fireside poker and wielded it threatening at Popper before stalking out of the room. Curiously the location of the weapon, the famous poker, remains a mystery to this day.
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My selection of tweets from Twitter, published November 2022.
The authors are aknowledged in my blogpost https://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-twitter/
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Jessica Lockinge continues her efforts to recruit John Keane as her first client for her detective agency.
During her school break back the the University she asks for his help in a project about leadership. John reluctantly agrees.
He learns from Jessica about the mysterious happenings at the Zoo. She suspects members of the Animal Rights movement at the University are involved, and secretly hope to confront the leader Dando Llewelyn when she has more proof ...
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This message is about me discovering my Goblin mode. But first, I have explain how it connects to being Woke.
Woke passed me by for quite some time. As I understand it, there has been much use of woke in a derogatory way. The term, woke, as every reader Guardian reader like me knows, is about being aware of cultural sensitivity.
So, to take a few recent examples, take the President of FIFA at the start of the current World Cup of football, also known as International Groundhog Day of Sport. ...
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We meet Pawan Rashid, who reveals he served with Dando Llewelyn in Afghanistan, before returning to work at Menscus. Dando contacts him and asks his help on a new but top secret mission, code name Project Sultan.
The first steps of Project Sultan involves Dando and Hudson Baye.
Pawan meets Dando secretly and tells him of work going on at Meniscus involving the Italian business tycoon Balzani.
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Hudson Baye
Hudson Baye was told by Tony Scrivener her academic advisor that she will be interviewed by the police over the incident at the student night club and she should write down what happened. Her account reveals Kingson Roberts had been her guest and had mysteriously been drugged before leaving to a night club in Manchester where the fatal knife attack on him took place.
She is a member of the group of student activists led by Dando Llewelyn , and supported by Tony Scrivener who suspects but is unaware of their plans under the code name Project Sultan.
Dando Kingston Roberts had revealed something in his drugged state at the student night club which made it necessary for him to be a target for his subsequent attack ...
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Wendy Lockinge acts on the information sent her by her mother Elizabeth. She sets up a visit to the Zoo with John Keane and Susie Yup to investigate possible involvement by student activist.
His unofficial Zoo visits with his students had already given John Keane unwelcome publicity. On arrival they find the new director is a former student at Urmston who gives them access to the Zoo records which suggest unauthorised movements of animals.
They also recognise the mysterious visitor which had been mentioned in Elizabeth's messages to her mother, and realise there is a deeper explanation to his actions.
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