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Author Archives: A S H Smyth

Missing in action

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Review of A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka. — For The Spectator

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Peter, Mark, Roget. His Complete Poetical Works

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

On the Loss of Friends That it is vain to shrink from

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Bollcks to the new-born king!

Monday, December 7, 2015

Troll(ing) the ancient Yuletide carol. — For The Spectator

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Easy Frisy

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

‘Some bread, some butter, and green cheese’ is as good in England as it is in Frisia. — * from a synthetic translation exercise by John McWhorter

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Freelance Writers’ Regiment

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Who Dares Whinge

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How d’you make a Maltese cross?

Friday, October 9, 2015

Fuck his missus.

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The Sony Ericsson verb table

Thursday, September 17, 2015

singular present indicative active boat coat amat

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My literary career thus far – as narrated by the Shipping Forecast

Monday, August 3, 2015

Good, becoming moderate. Occasionally very poor.

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Our foreign colleagues

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review of Tell Spring Not to Come This Year. — For The Spectator

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A dedication

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Sire, Among the many achievements which exemplify the reign of your august father, His Majesty Fouad I, the mapping of the Libyan Desert must surely take pride of place. This enormous expanse of sand, covering almost two thirds of the Kingdom, incorporated vast unexplored regions, maps of which showed little more than a series of […]

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