Tag: Books
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Scobie Don’t!
Hallelujah! T’is the season of gaslighting! Spunk sponge Omid Scobie has been probing the shallow waters of incredulity in suggesting that a mistranslation of his book led to the unmasking of the ‘royal racist’. Around the globe, translators are flummoxed because they’ve spent a lifetime translating verbs, nouns, adjectives, and other units of language that…
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Chapter and Verse
In the hours following the US Inauguration pomp and ceremony, CNN triumphally announced that Amanda Gorman had ‘… reminded America of what poetry can do’. Well, indirectly at least. Absolutely nothing. We had just watched the world’s most powerful nation saved from the brink of implosion, and once again, aspirations masquerading as values had heralded…
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Squirm Ban Führer
Another day, another assault on the freedom of speech by right-on, winkle-dicked, Big Tech bottom-feeders. This time, social media Sturmbannführers at You Tube have driven a metaphorical Panzer through the frontier of my channel and spiked one of my cringeworthy promotional videos. Last month, I received a missive from Team YT to inform me that…
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They Don’t Half Pick Them
Grim news from the Lebanon where Beirut has been left looking like, well, Beirut. Domestically, commentators on all sides were shaken by the proclamations of Sir Iain Duncan Smith who has concluded that the EU Withdrawal Agreement – that he voted for – is in fact a juicy steamer. Even a nine-month old baby would…
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McLovin It
In Paraguay, former Brazilian football megastar Ronaldinho has been arrested for entering the country on fake documents. Yes, this is one of a handful of the most recognisable people on the planet, and the said document was in his own real name. It’s stratospherically wacko. In fact, this was no border incident per se, and…
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Hitler’s Marketing Woes
Berlin, 1945. And Hitler is optimistic about Amazon book sales. He’s sacked the SS Marketing team, who kept dicking with the prices, and he’s got a new group of marketers on board. At a team meal with them, he explains his vision and his plans to trounce the Russian books on Kobo. But others are…
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Inglourious Prices
Berlin, 1945. Hitler is stressing again about book prices. Himmler and the SS Marketing Team are dicking with the commercials, and Amazon sales are down… Meanwhile, Stalin is running a stellar campaign and rinsing it on Kobo… What can the Führer do to reverse the trend…? Read what all the fuss is about – Flypaper…
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Let’s Eat, Grandma…
While we appear to be teetering on the edge of World War III (or at least that’s what you might be led to believe from certain online sources), I have been grappling with a far greater foe. English grammar. Now, I’ve always been somewhat a stickler for grammatical rules. And I’ve previously written in an…
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Fake a Line!
Berlin, April 1945. And Hitler isn’t happy. He’s preparing for a news conference to publicise Flypaper for Freaks and Freaking Hired! and he desperately needs a line from one of the books to slot into the slide deck. But Max Frances is nowhere to be found. So, Hitler has an idea… He summons his valet…
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