Tag: Keith Hann
Two men and a cloudburst in search of culture and an...
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR CULTURE up there? those southern folk (mostly Londoners) ask when I tell them we live in the Borders.
Ignoring the...
GREAT NEWS! Sacked for being rude about Wales, your favourite writer...
IN FORCING ICELAND FOODS BOSS Sir Malcolm Walker to dismiss his director of corporate affairs over a seven-year-old joke, Welsh nationalists have done the...
Lockdown school: keeping calm and carrying on at home
The elderly father-in-law of an old friend had an unfortunate habit of announcing in pubs, rather too loudly, “I was a grammar school headmaster,...
Perils of a pen-pusher: punctuation and prolixity
Writers have been getting a bit of stick recently. Trouble is, what they write gets (hopefully) seen by a lot of people, so they...
False claims or parallel truths?
I was going to write this blog last Sunday: but, after Saturday night’s terrorist outrage in London, it didn’t seem appropriate immediately to comment...
Mavericks, nutters, but no true leaders
"Cameron is no Gandhi," wrote Keith Hann yesterday. He’s right! But who is a great leader in our time? So many disappoint. Meanwhile, those...
