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The Spying Game

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by Gildas the Monk on October 11, 2015

It is 1972 in a sepia coloured England. Everything is black and white, or beige. In a Lancastrian mill town there is an infant school built by the Victorians; all granite and high ceilings and heavy

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Forever Autumn

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by Gildas the Monk on October 4, 2015

“The world has changed. I feel in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.”

Thus spoke Arwen, the “Evenstar” as she was also referred to

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The Last of the Famous International Playboys

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by Gildas the Monk on September 27, 2015

I was having a chat with our landlord Petunia this week. For those who don’t know, Petunia borrows his moniker from the theatrical nickname of 70s British showbusiness superstar, Peter Wyngarde AKA Jason King. I think I

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Mutter Angela and the Sorting Hat

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by Gildas the Monk on September 22, 2015

I read in my Sunday broadsheets that Angela Merkel is starting to get a bit of stick in Germany. For example “Mutter Angela” is featured on the front page of Der Spiegel in full Mother Theresa

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The Open Doors of Perception

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by Gildas the Monk on September 15, 2015

Here is a brief timeline of events.

On Saturday morning I listened with great interest to the announcements of the results of the Labour leadership contest. I raised an eyebrow at the announcement of Mr.

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A Sunday Ramble

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by Gildas the Monk on September 6, 2015

Since the world is quite clearly going to hell in a handcart, I decided to produce some whimsy, a bit of light refreshment. It is time to talk about lampreys. I feel the lamprey needs to

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Chilcot’s Ills – They’re Multiplyin’

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by Gildas the Monk on September 3, 2015

Chilcot’s ills/they’re multiplying/and he’s losing control…

So sang John Travolta to Olivia Neutron-Bomb in “Greece”, a satirical musical which celebrates the inanities of the Eurozone some 35 years ago now, just a couple of years

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Rush Hours

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by Gildas the Monk on August 31, 2015

I watched a film called “Rush” a while ago. It tells the story of the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Since I am not a petrol head I did not really know the story.

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A Quick Pitt Stop

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by Gildas the Monk on August 23, 2015

I came across this photograph the other day. It made me smile and it made me a bit sad. It was obviously taken at the height of the Hammer Horror craze, and summed up all the

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Bullying and the Misuses of Social Media

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by Gildas the Monk on August 19, 2015

When I was at school, in my mid teens, I was relentlessly and pretty badly bullied for a couple of years. It was very bad stuff, mostly but not always psychological. I can see now, with

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Sunday Miscellany

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by Gildas the Monk on August 16, 2015

Hello Raccoonistas. I have been away for a while. Some things have diverted me. But I could not let this weekend pass without a voice. 70 years since the end of the Second World War. I

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Dark Days Ahead

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by Gildas the Monk on June 28, 2015

I spent a largely unremarkable holiday in Tunisia back in the 80’s. It was so unremarkable I can’t remember whether I was in Sousse or not. It was very hot and, in the time-honoured phrase of

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The Sunday Post: Shrouded in Mystery

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by Gildas the Monk on April 5, 2015

Regular readers will recall that from time to time I conduct one of my historical mystery tours. These have often yielded results which surprise me. It seems there are times when historical narrative and scientific fact

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The Evening Post: Faith and Fur

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by Gildas the Monk on March 1, 2015

I could, I suppose, have written a diatribe about the inhuman piece of excrement that is “Jihadi John” or whatever his real name is, and also the deluded, ghastly and fanatical apologists for murder that is

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Putin the Boot In

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by Gildas the Monk on February 24, 2015

Whilst enjoying watching the occasional Europa Champions League match on TV of late it has not escaped my attention that the competition is sponsored by Gazprom, the Russian gas production company with a majority stake held

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The Sunday Post: The Rape of Dresden

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by Gildas the Monk on February 15, 2015

Dresden. 70 years ago 13 square miles of the city lay in smouldering ruins. Something like 25,000 people lay dead. Many died from lack of oxygen as the fire storm swept through the city; others were

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The Blair Way To Heaven

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by Gildas the Monk on February 4, 2015

The headline in The Times last week that made me froth a little was:

“Censored: Blair’s links with Rwanda”

Apparently, your friend and mine, Tony Blair has been granted a special constitutional

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The Sunday Post: Elegy

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by Gildas the Monk on January 25, 2015

I deeply mourn the passing of my dear friend, Juliette, who left us just after Christmas.

Some years ago, when I was in the midst of self-doubt, loneliness and misery, I would thrash about

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Sacranie Values?

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by Gildas the Monk on January 14, 2015

I heard an interesting interview by the BBC’s Nicky Campbell last week with Sir Iqbal Sacranie (OBE) this week. Despite working for the BBC, and particularly its light news and sport channel 5Live, Campbell is no

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The Sunday Post: Rituals

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by Gildas the Monk on January 4, 2015

I have written a couple of times about the little feral cat that I adopted, or who adopted me; and the posts received quite a lot of responses. Cat, as I simply called him at

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The Equalizer

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by Gildas the Monk on November 13, 2014

A couple of weeks ago I took myself off to the cinema to see “The Equalizer”. It is an old-fashioned morality tale, very loosely based on the TV series which made Edward Woodward a very rich

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Pilgrim’s Progress

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by Gildas the Monk on October 26, 2014

I see that the glitzy behemoth that is the BBC’s Children in Need is hoving into view. I have to confess, I don’t really like it. How can one not support such a manifestly good cause,

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Unholy War?

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by Gildas the Monk on August 24, 2014

This was the headline in an article in The Times – rather appropriate, I thought, in the light of the present pleasantries being visited on the Middle East by the nascent Islamic State.

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Islam and the Sword.

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by Gildas the Monk on August 22, 2014

There was a prescient piece in the Sunday Times this week by Tom Holland, historian and author of, amongst other books, ‘In the Shadow of the Sword’, which charts the origins of Islam.

In

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Lest we forget

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by Gildas the Monk on August 4, 2014

100 years ago today Britain entered a war in which Europe slaughtered its young men on an industrial scale. Two of the men who fought and thankfully survived were my grandfathers. My paternal grandfather fought with

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An update about the Cat With No Name.

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by Gildas the Monk on August 3, 2014

Very regular readers might just recall I have occasionally written about “my” cat – the Cat With No Name.

To reprise, he came into my life when I found my present sanctuary, damn near

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A letter to a 15 year old girl in America.

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by Gildas the Monk on July 27, 2014

Dear S.

I gather there has been another ‘incident’. I am not too sure of the details, but I understand it has something to do with alcohol, being up all night

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Risk – The Dirty War for Europe’s integrity and Soul

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by Gildas the Monk on July 6, 2014

Juncker

Charlegmagne

Charlegmagne

When I was a young man I used to play a strategy board

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The trials of Tyrion Lannister, and others.

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by Gildas the Monk on June 30, 2014

Warning! Spoiler alert for Game of Thrones Series 4, Episodes 4, 5 and 6!

Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister turns on his tormentors as his father Tywin (Charles Dance)

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World Cup Mayhem

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by Gildas the Monk on June 15, 2014

The Quidditch World Cup or something has come to the Abbey, and in some style. Leave aside all naked FIFA corruption, the riots and the general unpleasant side of the ‘beautiful game’, the

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