Category Archives: brussels

The Rebound.

Posted on February 6, 2017 by twochances

You know the deal. If it’s never happened to you, it will. Or else to someone you know. The English have decided to split from their long term live in partner. The Americans are getting divorced from reality. They’re sad, … Continue reading →

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The Full English.

Posted on November 3, 2016 by twochances

I am in the restaurant of a golf club in Sussex. It is Sunday morning. And the waiter, as it happens, is from Poznan. I tell him that the soot on the buildings there always used to remind me of … Continue reading →

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Send In The Clowns.

Posted on June 30, 2016 by twochances

I once had the honour of working with the British actor and satirist Peter Cook. I was an advertising copywriter in London then and I was recording a radio spot for Network SouthEast, a part of the then still publicly … Continue reading →

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Fear And Loathing (Hearts And Minds #3).

Posted on June 15, 2016 by twochances

An advertisement tweeted by leave.eu on Sunday and then mysteriously deleted.   On Saturday evening two hundred heavily armed Russian thugs launched a planned and premeditated attack on English football supporters in Marseille. Nine people were hospitalised. One of them with … Continue reading →

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