Middlemarch: an accolade for George Eliot

Middlemarch: an accolade for George Eliot

Middlemarch by George Eliot has been voted the best novel of all time in a Guardian poll of writers, academics and critics. A 900-page portrait of 19th-century provincial life it is not embraced with the same enthusiasm as Austen, Bronte or Dickens but Virgina Woolf declared it “one of the few English novels written for…

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Russell Brand – a turgid word salad takes flight

Russell Brand – a turgid word salad takes flight

Nul points for Russell Brand’s latest book How to Become a Christian in Seven Days from reviewers who have taken great delight in ridiculing the first offering from Tucker Carlson’s new publishing outfit.   “With its lewd jokes and word-vomit prose, the comedian’s account of his conversion is enough to put anyone off Christianity.” His…

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Trump – off to the Orient

Trump – off to the Orient

Trump en route to tackle the dragon in Beijing for the first US state visit in ten years, accompanied by tech leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook, is expected to tackle the Iran question, Taiwan, trade, AI and drugs.  There are fears that his inability to find closure over the Strait of Hormuz impasse…

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Barbault – a basket of bounty approaches

Barbault – a basket of bounty approaches

A cheerful prediction from the renowned French astrologer the late Andre Barbault about a basket of good fortune approaching this July. The new-era Pluto in Aquarius trine Uranus in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries, all at four degrees, will be embraced by Jupiter at 4 degrees Leo to form a lucky Half Grand Sextile around…

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Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez – devoted to a cause

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez – devoted to a cause

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman, is talked up as a presidential hopeful from the ranks of the struggling Democratic Party. She is described as ‘progressive, left-wing and left-wing populist’ and she certainly has the chart of an activist.  Born 13 October 1989 11.50am New York, she has an assertive and ambitious 10th house Mars…

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Winnie Mandela – tainted but on the right track

Winnie Mandela – tainted but on the right track

  The rainbow dream that died has left South African marked by inequality, with one of the world’s highest rates of murder and entrenched youth unemployment; cratered, litter-strewn roads; water and power more often than not switched off in townships like Soweto. Wealth and land have stayed largely in white hands or moved to a…

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Tess and Vernon – an Aries and Taurus split

Tess and Vernon – an Aries and Taurus split

Shock horror – vibrant, successful showbusiness couple, seemingly a model of togetherness, separate after 22 year marriage.   My astonishment is that fans never seem to grasp that the outside of a marriage is never what the inside is like, even with ordinary folk. And exponentially so in most cases where entertainment duos are concerned….

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Henry Moore – a colossus in bronze

Henry Moore – a colossus in bronze

Henry Moore’ sculptures are having a spectacular at Kew with Monumental Nature being the largest ever outdoor exhibition of his work. The greatest British sculptor of the 20th century, his works when they are on sale go for many millions.   His story is a fascinating one. Born on 30 July 1898 in Castleford, England,…

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