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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 29 Jun 2017, 6:35 pm
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| Don't You Dare Do Away With My DLA! After a torrid few days which saw Iain Duncan Smith resign as Work and Pensions Minister partly over the change from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) , blow a hole in George Osborne’s budget before he turned out the lights... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 29 Jun 2017, 6:07 pm
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| Road Rage Rants and the Sound of Thunder... Funny thing about Ronnie Pickering's road rage … I did the same myself once. I was at a roundabout near the bottom of Birmingham which verges decorously upon the green fields and garden centres of Worcestershire, watching traffic come and go, waiting for ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2015, 7:08 pm
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| 9 to 5 or 14/27? As I once wrote in Dear Miss Landau , “have you ever met one of those people who always end up standing in the kitchen at parties? The geeky weirdo with a patched and scruffy beard, whose glasses date from 1973, who … will fix you with an unnervingly intense stare, deliver a lectur... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 02 May 2015, 10:58 am
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| They Saved Einstein's Brain! More precisely, they lost it. It finally turned up in Wichita, Kansas, in the hands of the secretive pathologist who’d originally sawed it out of Albert Einstein’s skull and still sought to find the secret of his genius within its cerebral structure. But there’s no defi... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2015, 9:47 pm
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| Dear Miss Landau : the Musical? Could there really be a musical version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ? Three things: A stage musical version of Dear Miss Landau is in development. This could be about the first time anything Buffy -related has got back to stage or screen since Angel wrapped. We're se... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2015, 6:32 pm
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| Led by the Lamb to the Slaughter “He was gasping, but forced himself steady, and said solemnly, ‘I have given us our freedom.’ And he paused, aware at last of the gathering weight of the silence. Fourteen images stared at him, without any of them offering a word in response. Bakst said sharply, ‘Yo... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2015, 9:16 pm
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| Last Train from Needles Every trip I take, every move I make (at least abroad), I ask myself if I’m being too blunt, too harsh, too downright about the facts of life regarding independent travel. And the funny thing is, I usually witness proof that my approach is basically right and that those who ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 13 Feb 2015, 7:00 pm
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| Fifty Shades of... Dru? Apart from a shared interest in kinky sex, perhaps, you wouldn't think Drusilla (Spike's girlfriend from Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) would have that much in common with E. L. James and Fifty Shades of Grey . But from my particular perspective, there are parallels: E.L. James ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2015, 3:21 pm
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| Hall and Hebdo in a Huff with Obama? I see President Obama has criticised the scribes and pages of this august paper. “Get informed, he says. [but] not by reading the Huffington Post ...” Well, as one of those scribes I’d say writing a blog for the Post can be a ball, but I approached it more in th... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015, 2:00 pm
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| My Moment Meeting Jordan I stood next to Katie Price (AKA Jordan) once. I think it was at Heathrow about April 2004. My mother and I were flying in from South Africa, Katie and her mother were flying out en route to elsewhere. An airport official was explaining something about passenger transfers t... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 4:56 pm
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| We Were Warriors Once, and Young... http://www.autism.org.uk/~/media/NAS/Photographs/Non-standard%20sizes/other%20sizes/AutismCon%20375.ashx It was a wonderful night in Red Lion Square. Conway Hall in Bloomsbury, home to the UK’s only humanist and ethical charity and venue for the first autism conv... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 4:32 pm
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| No Farewell to Leicester Square, but Au Revoir to Earls Court Standing on a street corner far from Sunset Boulevard, near a stop on the District and Piccadilly lines and north of the Thames, memories of the lives and times which became Dear Miss Landau seem miles and years away. But then my fellow ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 4:22 pm
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| Is There or Is There Not an Actual Job! Word reaches me that yet another young Asperger has been sent along that false but winding yellow brick road towards a sunlit city on a hill proclaiming the golden words: EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY! Only to find, upon arrival at the gates of Oz, that there is no ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 4:13 pm
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| Equality? Diversity? What’s the Reality? It's often the smaller nuggets of news that make it onto the blogger's beat. I'd wondered why the spectre of Scottish independence was making me sick, Glasgow's Commonwealth Games leaving me cold and the latest crisis in Gaza rendering me - I don't know - ey... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 4:06 pm
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| The Ragged Road to Adult Autism Research History is seldom neat. More often it’s as ragged as Amy Pond oft accused the eleventh Doctor of being; so please excuse this raft of quotes regarding Autistica’s new Research Centre for Ageing with Autism at Newcastle University as the inevitable by-product... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Dear Miss Landau |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2015, 3:44 pm
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| Talent, How Not To Train Or Keep It… Rifling through the pages of The Times after a fine and fruitful meeting with my publisher at The Fox in Felpham, I found a supplement entitled Employee Engagement & Benefits and some fascinating phrases about problems facing businesses from Andrew Benett, a... |
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