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Edwin Drood's Column is a blog by The Mysterious Edwin Drood.
Occasionally, when the Drood is absent, his place is filled by the series
"While the Drood's away..." which currently features poetry by Hugh Featherstone. |
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Index of previous blogs - 2013 |
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| Edwin Drood's Column |
February 2013 |
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| 5 February |
Miss Gradenko, are you safe?
In which Edwin considers how a new law hurts those it intends to protect and leaves the way open for gross perversion of justice and even the collusion of medical professionals in the creation of harassment millionaires. |
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| 12 February |
“I’ve got a little list”
In which Edwin notes our passion for lists and wonders whether there is an evolutionary imperative at work, whether the list is not an expression of our deep need to organise life in our own image. |
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| 19 February |
Papal Division Bell
In which Edwin wonders whether the “last” Pope, so often promised, might not turn out to be a template for an eternal papacy of ecumenical super-beings designed to fill our human need for fatherly figures of universal sagacity, regardless of religious adhesion. |
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| 26 February |
Life imitating art
In which Edwin wonders whether the Obama presidency has not been scripted by Aaron Sorkin ... and finds that he is by no means the first to imagine this. |
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| Edwin Drood's Column |
March 2013 |
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| 5 March |
While the Drood's away...
Nicky's window
Edwin is absent again, so time for another poem by Hugh Featherstone,
from the selection Bird under water. |
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| Edwin Drood's Column |
April 2013 |
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| 1 April |
While the Drood's away...
By any other name, II, IV
In Edwin's absence flows the poetry of Hugh Featherstone,
from the selection Bird under water. |
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| 16 April |
Everyone aboard for the next wave
In which Edwin demonstrates the Mexican Wave, apologises for the World Peace Machine (well, sort of) is suitably contrite over the regrettable failure of the Great Jump Sideways and altogether finds the job of planetary dictator fraught with awkward responsibilities. |
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| 23 April |
While the Drood's away...
Lounge piano
While Edwin takes a hike we take another leaf from Hugh Featherstone's
poetry selection Bird under water. |
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| 30 April |
Uncomfortably numb
In which Edwin comes to accept that indifference is a perfectly valid rationale in view of the unrelenting clamour and brutality of a world that is itself indifferent to reason. |
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| Edwin Drood's Column |
May 2013 |
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| 7 May |
Que Sarin sera!
In which Drood considers the role that a Nazi nerve gas may finally play in the future, post-conflict, organisation of the Middle East as well as in its ongoing, provocative dialogue with the West. |
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| 14 May |
The Game of Consequences
In which Edwin rides into the sunset to meet a bald man with a six gun, a body denied burial and a tiger under sentence of death. |
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| 28 May |
Preaching to the converted
The day Edwin went to Woolwich and what he found there that reminded him of Cleveland and Washington, of Sandy Hook and Columbine. |
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| Edwin Drood's Column |
June 2013 |
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| 11 June |
A leaky week, or 2.37 cheers for Edward Snowden
Edwin believes that Hong Kong is not quite the place to choose as a potential safe haven, at least, not if free speech is what you are ostensibly trying to defend. |
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| 18 June |
While the Drood's away...
Small world
While Edwin is absent Hugh Featherstone shares some childhood memories
from his poetry selection Bird under water. |
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| 25 June |
O tempora, o mores: an even leakier week
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Apart from the fact that no one is suggesting we live in the best of times, Edwin feels this statement could reasonably well be applied to the present. There is a very clear disconnect, almost revolutionary, between the rulers and the ruled, when one man’s patriot is another man’s traitor. |
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July 2013 |
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| 2 July |
Seedy Roms vs CD ROMS
The Rom, Roma or Romany people seem to be unwanted everywhere. They have become the wandering Jews of modern Europe, the albatross around the neck of every nation’s asylum programme. Drood compares their chances of finding a permanent home with those of another albatross, or Stormy Petrel, Edward Snowden. |
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| 16 July |
While the Drood's away...
The Beeching Report
While Edwin spends the summer driving Miranda through the Auvergne,
Hugh Featherstone plays on abandoned railway tracks somewhen in England.
From his poetry selection Bird under water. |
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| 30 July |
While the Drood's away...
Bread on water
A sailor's song by Hugh Featherstone,
from the poetry selection Bird under water. |
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August 2013 |
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| 20 August |
While the Drood's away...
Arnheim at the Tate
Hugh Featherstone continues to span the Drood's summer absence with a bridge of pipe dreams. Another poem from the selection Bird under water. |
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September 2013 |
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| 3 September |
Lobster Quadrille, or the Thermidor Reaction
In which Edwin recalls a visit to Vienna, which leads him to drivel on sleepily about luxury hotels, Robespierre, crustaceans and satellite-assisted gear changes. The rich are different insofar as they lead even more futile and unnecessary lives than the poor. |
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| 17 September |
The myth of fingerprints
In which Edwin waxes lyrical on a subject barely known to him, that of babies, and wonders what the future might have in store for a family whose likely demise is currently reprieved by such a frail thing as a lone girl-child … which draws him inexorably into other issues, other conundra. |
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| 24 September |
The great Shebaab shebang
In which Edwin asks whether the world can afford Islam, socially or economically. Is the religion of peace becoming too bellicose to integrate? Is the price we are all paying for its existence already too high and likely to rise even higher in the immediate future? |
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October 2013 |
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| 1 October |
While the Drood's away...
Sofia Central
Hugh Featherstone waits for the slow train.
From his poetry selection Bird under water. |
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| 8 October |
Body language
In which Edwin recalls a poster seen in the Auvergne, connects some dots and comes up with a reason for our melancholy fascination with child abduction cases and our need to believe in life, even in the teeth of the evidence. |
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| 15 October |
A tale of Three Wise Men
In which Edwin questions the wisdom of three modern “magi” and gets into a game of etymological “king of the castle” with the Malaysian Court of Appeals. |
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| 22 October |
While the Drood's away...
Legend of the turf
Horses for courses.
From Hugh Featherstone's poetry selection Bird under water. |
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| Edwin Drood's Column |
November 2013 |
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| 5 November |
Gridlock
In which Edwin promotes a three-litre Alvis from 1963 as an example of sustainable motoring, questions the wisdom of the great German "Energiewende" and wonders whether that nation might not be risking its industrial and technological pre-eminence for a place in the queue at the bottle bank. |
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| 12 November |
Robbing the poor
In which Edwin glances fondly at two former bosom friends, now divided by ideology and geopolitical posture, and asks what went wrong in this love affair. |
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| 19 November |
Not quite rhapsodic, but definitely bohemian
How pleasant to know Mr Drood, who has written such volumes of stuff that no matter how much he extrudes, his readers still can't get enough. In which Edwin parodies Edward Lear in a piece of doggerel sketching his recent tour of Bohemia, in the hope that it inspires something of a little more depth next week. |
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| 26 November |
Licence of the Sams
“I do not like Green Eggs and Ham, I will not eat them Sam-I-am”... Edwin engages the spirits of Plutarch and Dr Seuss in light philosophical discourse (well, sort of) while endeavouring to square the circle with Eric the lamb, ethically responsible nutrition and the spoon-fed guests at a Russian funeral breakfast. |
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| Edwin Drood's Column |
December 2013 |
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| 3 December |
A coffee-coloured future
In which Edwin examines the highly robust idea of the melting pot as cultural metaphor and decides that, despite some rather obvious disadvantages, it still offers us our greatest hope. |
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| 10 December |
Paying my foggy dues
In which Edwin takes to the road in dense fog and, despite his diplomatic pedigree, is forced to consider the virtues of clarity. |
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| 17 December |
Feeding the birds on credit
Edwin fears that new anti fraud legislation may mean the death of small businesses and end up only benefitting the very people whose dubious activities it was intended to reign in. |
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