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Books, Britain, Media, Music

Keep calm and carry on

Alex Mitchell/June 20, 2012March 2, 2013 /1 Comment

AT school in Townsville just after World War Two we used to sing “There’ll always be an England” at the top of our tiny voices. The robust patriotic song, written in 1939, looks a little shakey in 2012. In Britain today most people accept that the country is on its knees but citizens  – at…

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When books make you cry

Guest Contributor/June 18, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

I went to the British Library’s current exhibition anticipating that it would be interesting. What I didn’t expect was that it would move me to tears. Writing Britain is a history of landscape presented through works of literature, from the original manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to Dickens and Woolf. It reunited me with some…

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Changing times

Alex Mitchell/June 16, 2012March 2, 2013 /1 Comment

I first arrived in London 45 years ago on the P&O passenger liner Oronsay. It was a six-week trip that cost me 200 bucks. I spent my first night in the Mount Pleasant Hotel, a two-star lodging previously used as a hostel for drunks and down-and-outs. This time I arrived on Royal Thai Airways (Brisbane-Bangkok)…

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The changing face of London

Guest Contributor/June 16, 2012March 2, 2013 /1 Comment

John Lanchester’s novel Capital, which I began reading in the plane on the way over, is great preparation for a visit here. In it he takes the inhabitants of a gentrified London street – everyone from the financial trader to the family in the corner shop – through the GFC. It’s a funny, touching, hugely…

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Brazil 1 England 0. No extra time

Alex Mitchell/January 8, 2012March 2, 2013 /Leave a comment

In case you missed the news, Brazil has deposed Britain as the sixth largest economy in the world, according to the annual world economic league table compiled by the Centre for Economic and Business Research.Britain’s steady economic and industrial decline is one of the most remarkable events of the past century, on a par with…

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