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Good advice from C.K. Stead on having an appetite for life: Self-absorption is slow death by interior corrosion, and what protects us against it is curiosity, an appetite for the world in all its forms. If you enjoy the world enough to look hard at it, it will save you – but only from yourself,
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This made me laugh, from Meg Wolitzer’s novel The Wife: All of them, the novelists, the story writers, the poets, desperately long to win. If there is a prize, then there is someone somewhere on earth who desires it. Grown men pace their homes and scheme about ways to win things, and small children hyperventilate
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Here are some bullet points to consider, some suggestions of how to survive with integrity in an environment which seems to have become inimical to good sense, tolerance and civilised values: Listen to others, be polite and attentive, while holding firm to what you believe to be right. Do not provoke, or allow yourself
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Coming up at 1:24, I describe the burning of heretics in Smithfield:
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Nice to have been able to get St Bartholomew the Great into this French TV history programme about Mary Tudor.
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We could perhaps do with a Thomas Cromwell in UK politics today. This is from Tracy Borman’s biography: Cromwell’s love of all things Italian was highly unusual for a Londoner. Andreas Franciscius had been aghast to discover on his visit to the capital that its inhabitants ‘not only despise the way in which Italians live,
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Hello, I’m Virginia Rounding, and I was previously a Councillor in this Ward from 2011 to 2017, and would now like to take up the cudgels on your behalf again. To summarise, and briefly expand on, the pledges contained in my election leaflet: If elected, I commit myself to being available and attentive to your
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At a time when party politics can appear increasingly toxic, it is a strength of local politics in the City that the vast majority of City councillors do not operate on a party-political basis. It is vital that, on issues affecting local residents and workers, as well as stakeholders in other areas managed by the
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I have been involved in City of London life since I first moved into a flat in Long Lane in 1997. My side of the street was then in Farringdon Without, boundary changes bringing it ‘Within’ a few years later. I subsequently moved out of the Ward, but continued to be closely involved with it
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I will not make false or reckless promises just to get votes but, if elected, I will always be attentive to the concerns of residents and workers in the Ward and argue forcefully on their behalf for what can be achieved. I will work to make it easier for those who live and/or work in
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