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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 - 2014 |
29 posts |
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January 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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February 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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April 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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May 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 13 May |
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. |
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June 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 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? |
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July 2014 |
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| 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. |
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August 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 12 August |
The gigantic dragon dump part 2
Edwin's tale of dragon do, continued from 5 August. |
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| 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. |
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September 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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October 2014 |
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| 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. |
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November 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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December 2014 |
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| 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. |
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| 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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