by Douglas | Nov 27, 2020 | Creative Writing
Write your way from lockdown If you haven’t strung two sentences together since you were at school, start with something simple like a Limerick or Haiku. There are three examples on the right to help you get started. Be more ambitious if you’re used to...
by Douglas | Nov 24, 2020 | Journalism
How Nilsen cntrolled his own legacy The case of mass murderer Dennis Nilsen, who confessed to killing 15 or 16 young men, but was only charged with six, is established forever as one of Britain’s most notorious crimes.
Nilsen’s name is coupled with Dr Crippen,...
by Douglas | Nov 23, 2020 | Journalism
The late psychical researcher Maurice Grosse reading Guy Playfair’s book which recorded the goings-on at Green Street Graham Morris went on to specialize in photographing test cricket, but he’s still asked about that Lego brick Published in 2019, this...
by Douglas | Nov 21, 2020 | Journalism
Need a new writer? Send for a supersub ‘Bill Bryson is laying down his pen and retiring from books’ Ben Macintre wrote in The Times on October 16 2020. The remainder of this entertaining piece continued as follows: The funny,...
by Douglas | Nov 20, 2020 | Blog
Why Ukraine will not lose its independence If Vladimir Putin knewwhat I know he wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine, he’d have left his troops to complete their military ‘exercises’ on the border and left it at that. But instead he pushed the boundaries, seeing...
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