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Off to see my Czech mates
October 2nd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Thirteen years ago, one of my closest friends – a Czech doctor from Prague – died of leukemia here in London. You can read my tribute to Pavel Horvath here.Vee and I have retained a deep friendship with his family who are like our own and we exchange visits between London and Prague on a […]
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Welcome to Sarajevo
September 30th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
A week ago, I was in Sarajevo for a weekend break with my sister Silvia. I’ve now written up an account for my web site and included 24 photographs. Usually my holidays are all about enjoying local architecture and culture with little opportunity or need to focus on politics, but this trip was different. Every […]
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What is truth – and does it matter?
September 24th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
On my web site is a short essay that has stimulated some thought and discussion by visitors to my site. The essay is entitled “The Reason For Truth” and you can read it here. The fullest response has come from my former colleague and good friend Derek Bright. I’ve appended it below together with my […]
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Back from Bosnia
September 23rd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Anyone who knows me or who reads this blog knows that i love travelling to different countries and meeting people from different cultures. I haven’t blogged for a few days because I’ve been on a short break to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. This is the 47th country that I’ve visited but very special in […]
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The New Europe
September 16th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
This evening, I watched the first programme in a series of seven called “Michael Palin’s New Europe”. The series is being shown on Sunday evenings on BBC1 and they will cover 20 countries in Eastern Europe. I have an intense interest in this part of the world, mainly because my wife is half Czech and […]
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Thoughts wing around world
September 16th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
For eight years now, I’ve been sending out by e-mail a “Thought For The Week” – usually on a Sunday. More than 400 have now been dispatched and you can read them all here. I started the practice when I was Head of Research at the Communication Workers Union and at first it only went […]
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Anyone for a game of conkers?
September 10th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
One really notices the change of seasons by observing the trees and, in my part of London, there are fortunately quite a few trees. On the main road near my home, there are some particularly fine horse chestnut trees and I noticed today that they’ve just started to shed their conkers. I wonder if children […]
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A really taxing business
September 9th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
In 1972, I was awarded a Political Fellowship from the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust to enable me to work full-time as a researcher in the House of Commons for Rt Hon Merlyn Rees MP, the Labour Party’s Opposition spokesperson on Northern Ireland. I had to sort out my own tax and national insurance. Ever […]
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Astride the meridian
September 4th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
This week, I revisited the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich with a very good friend who’s lived in London for decades and never been there. One of the famous features of the place is the location of 0 degrees longitude and one can stand astride a line marking this special […]
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A tasty finger for Joshua
August 28th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Regular visitors to NightHawk will know about our dear Chinese friends Hua and Zhihao who are like a daughter and a son to us and they have shared their four-month old baby Joshua with us to the extent that we see him as our Chinese grandson. When we last saw Joshua a few days ago, […]
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