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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.
  Index of previous blogs - 2014 29 posts
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Edwin Drood's Column January 2014
 
14 January Stuck in fair Verona

In which Edwin muses on the regularity and mystery of certain cosmic appearances, such as star-studded versions of Shakespeare and the cultural black holes into which they must all needs vanish.
 
21 January “All I want is to breathe”

In which Edwin moves from observations on subliminal advertising to a reflection on the possible effects of a reciprocal surveillance culture in general.
 
28 January The last million

In which Edwin sympathises with Her Royal Highness in her current financial straits. Don’t worry, he says, the Queen is too big to fail.
Edwin Drood's Column February 2014
 
4 February While the Drood's away...

Word processes

Hugh Featherstone faces another case of late night hunger.

The first poem of the year from Hugh's selection Bird under water.
 
11 February Grim anniversaries

In which Edwin celebrates his parents meeting, the dubious beginnings of the VW Beetle and the career of one of Hollywood’s greatest cinematographers.
 
18 February Polite story revisited

The latest developments in investigations into the Al Hilli killings appear to be proving Edwin's 2012 article eerily prescient.
 
25 February Al Hilli billies and Ali byes

In which Edwin considers how much egg he should scrape off his face, the tricky nature of the Heisenberg effect if applied to hot potatoes and wonders how bad a cop has to be before his mates give up on him.
Edwin Drood's Column March 2014
 
4 March While the Drood's away...

The water stone, IV

Hugh Featherstone peers into the stone.

Another poem from Hugh's selection Bird under water.
 
18 March While the Drood's away...

The prodigals return

Hugh Featherstone prepares the fatted calf on a tiny planet.

Another poem from Hugh's selection Bird under water.
Edwin Drood's Column April 2014
 
1 April The Second Coming

In which Edwin waxes most lyrical on the subject of a certain beastly beauty and wonders whether the glorious past is indeed a foreign country or whether it cannot be brought once again to these luminous shores with a single, brilliant stroke from an unlikely trio of allies.
 
15 April Render unto Caesar (on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370)

In which Edwin wonders whether there could be any truth to a rumour currently turning on the mill, and the way that ideologically or pragmatically driven decisions made in the early post-colonial period come back to haunt us all.
 
22 April Render unto Caesar II (on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, continues)

Another week has passed, and although Edwin would like to leave this topic and go somewhere a little lighter and more entertaining, the subject just won’t go away.
Edwin Drood's Column May 2014
 
6 May Please pass the prologue

Having lavished praise on what motor journalist Chris Harris has called the “incomprehensibly attractive posterior” of the F-type Jag, followed by a couple of plunges into the troubled waters of the Indian Ocean in search of something that is neither black, nor a box, this week Edwin approaches the great divide between semantics and chronology.
 
13 May
 

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Dulce et decorum

Edwin is once again astonished at the shortness of our memories and the disrespectful way we bequeath the rancour of a grievance across generations yet fail to transmit gratitude where it is due.
Edwin Drood's Column June 2014
 
10 June Time to take death off the options list?

In the light of a series of botched executions in the US, Edwin once again addresses the issue of the death penalty and comes up with an uncharacteristically mild recommendation.
 
23 June Moscow, got to catch Ukraine

Not for the first time, Edwin is at a loss to understand the Russian soul. How can a nation so incompetent and unproductive be so proud of itself?
Edwin Drood's Column July 2014
 
9 July While the Drood's away...

The Ethiopian

Who is the stranger in the hall?

Another poem from Hugh Featherstone's selection Bird under water.
Edwin Drood's Column August 2014
 
5 August The gigantic dragon dump part 1

One fine morning, a colossal dragon with wings the size of football fields and a tail as long as long as long, flew over the valley and dumped an enormous dump, big as a church, right in the middle of the village square, before flying away to the west, never to be seen again.
 
12 August The gigantic dragon dump part 2

Edwin's tale of dragon do, continued from 5 August.
 
22 August A man of means

In which Edwin considers the idea of a guaranteed minimum existence subsidy and asks whether this might not be either a panacea for various social ills or the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Edwin Drood's Column September 2014
 
2 September “Incidents and accidents, hints and allegations”

In which Edwin considers political double-speak, the Indian version of which involves making a public statement and then issuing a public denial distancing yourself from it.
 
9 September Goodbye, bright things

In which Edwin considers whether we are, indeed, at the end of history, though not as Frances Fukuyama intended, and whether the world is, indeed, becoming flat, though not quite as Thomas Friedman envisaged.
 
23 September Fifty ways to leave your lover?

In which Edwin looks at the Scottish referendum and sees it as a foregone conclusion, however close it may have appeared to the pollsters.
 
30 September Things ain’t what they used to be

In which Edwin gingerly approaches a brave new world that some of us are embracing
even before it’s been beta-tested.
Edwin Drood's Column October 2014
 
7 October While the Drood's away...

Erosion

Edwin has gone west yet again, but will return next month with more Droodian insights. In the mean time, here is another poem from Hugh Featherstone's selection Bird under water.
Edwin Drood's Column November 2014
 
11 November I link therefore I am

In which Edwin tries to deal with the shame of not having a wiki entry and never really knowing what to say about himself or others in the wonderful world of online job profiling.
 
19 November A rowing of ducks

This is the week in which, at the risk of being taken for one of those magazine programmes that carry general interest stories instead of hard news, Edwin presents a little potpourri of themes and ideas to delight your neurones instead of grappling with one big thing.
Edwin Drood's Column December 2014
 
2 December “Life is a minestrone”

This is a second week in which, at the risk of being taken for one of those magazine programmes that carry general interest stories instead of hard news, Edwin presents a little potpourri of themes and ideas to delight your neurones instead of grappling with one big thing.
 
18 December A Christmas Carol

In which Edwin exercises his lyrical muse and his better than average set of pipes in praise of international coalitions, sanctions, etc., all to the tune of “God rest ye merry, Gentlemen”.
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