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    Texting Tremaine – a Short Story

    07:37 from: +44 7885 912124 ‘This is my new mobile. Pls save 2 ur phone’ 07:39 from: Tremaine ‘OK. u will send instructions from this number?’          Becki frowned at the incoming message on her new phone. The day was running away from her already. There was no time to…

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    The Coral Farm – A New Work in Progress

    ‘The coral is dying,’ said Daniel to a small and disinterested family of floppy hatted, baked-skinned tourists. The matriarch, wearing a translucent beach robe that shimmied around her wide hips took a snap of the coral tank on her iPhone then looked away. Daniel held up a twiggy white splintered…

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    Send our Think Tanks to Ukraine

    What precisely is a ‘Think Tank’ and should we be selling them to Ukraine? Certainly, from what I’ve seen they’re a destructive force. They invariably seem to qualify for charitable status, without performing any identifiable charitable works. Indeed they mostly perform no visible function at all, although they often share…

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    Why I Remain a Godless Heathen

    I went to Sunday school  as a child steeped in Enid Blyton and  Alfred Hitchcock, and found the language of the Bible musty and impenetrable, and the narrative less convincing than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Sunday School was more about giving my parents a couple of hours…