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Isolation with Nora

Posted on May 10, 2020     Leave a Comment

It started with Heartburn. The novel, you understand, by Nora Ephron. It had come my way as a recommendation from a friend, as a book perfect for These Times. And it was. For three glorious days I was transported out of myself and lockdown London and into the life of Rachel (Nora) and the 1970s on […]

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With love

Posted on July 23, 2016     Leave a Comment

Despite all the important things I have wanted to write about over these past few weeks, I haven’t been able to face blogging about the thing I most needed to write about: leaving Warwick. I have opened and closed this post many times, and never have I found the words. But today, my wonderful friend […]

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Lessons from the year

Posted on June 11, 2015     Leave a Comment

My second year at university saw success on three fronts: more work, more reading and more writing. Somewhere along the way, I learnt quite a bit; about myself, journalism and politics. And so, having, like a lot of journalists, bemoaned the advent of the ‘listicle’ (which I still maintain should not be a word), I […]

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