November, 2012

The few things we know and the many we don’t

Maybe you better stop reading now. That is, if you’ve heard all you want to hear on the subject of sexual abuse, about which tens of thousands, maybe millions of words have been written and spoken in recent years….You still want to go on reading? Despite last night seeing that odd and sad figure, Freddie […]

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The few things we know and the many we don’t

Maybe you better stop reading now. That is, if you’ve heard all you want to hear on the subject of sexual abuse, about which tens of thousands, maybe millions of words have been written and spoken in recent years….You still want to go on reading? Despite last night seeing that odd and sad figure, Freddie […]

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Death of a prison officer

It’s strange. Just after I heard of the killing of David Black, the prison officer, I heard that someone I admire a great deal was suffering from terminal cancer. So the two deaths came together in my head.   Condemnations of the David Black killing have come flooding in. Peter Robinson says it’s the work […]

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Death of a prison officer

It’s strange. Just after I heard of the killing of David Black, the prison officer, I heard that someone I admire a great deal was suffering from terminal cancer. So the two deaths came together in my head.   Condemnations of the David Black killing have come flooding in. Peter Robinson says it’s the work […]

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