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Paul Richards Articles

Rocking against racism

Going to gigs was one of life’s great excitements when I was young, but I always regret the ones I missed. Of course it would have been fantastic to have seen the Beatles at the Kaiserkeller on the Reeperbahn in the early 1960s; or the Jimi Hendrix set at Woodstock...
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Epitaph on a tyrant

‘When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.’ Epitaph on a Tyrant, WH Auden I spent a little time at the ‘Occupy’ tent city in the grounds of St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday. You can read what I...
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Is he still there?

There’s a been a feeling all week that no sooner than anyone writes anything about Liam Fox, he might have resigned. Yet as far as I know, the defence secretary is still in post. The question is why? On Wednesday, Ed Miliband told David Cameron that he was more...
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An app for that?

I saw my first Apple Macintosh in 1986, at the Salford University Students’ Union. It had been purchased to allow ‘desk-top publishing’ of the student newspaper. It was kept in a special room – The Mac Room – into which only a select band were allowed, as long as they...
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