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I'm moving

nick hay — 2009-02-24T19:12:00Z

I have decided Moving Toyshop needs to move! Although this site will remain open and all the archived posts accessible all new blogs will be at.....http://movingtoyshop.wordpress.com/ My thanks to everyone who has visited, read and commented her

Mysteries of the Year: 2008

nick hay — 2009-01-07T15:38:00Z

My reviewing for rte means that I can for the first time provide a reasonably contemporary list of the best new mysteries which I read in 2008 - and as I love a list here goes.....1) Reginald Hill - A Cure for All Diseases2) Laura Wilson - Strat

Horizon

nick hay — 2008-11-19T10:08:00Z

There have been a couple of Horizon programmes over the past 2 weeks (11th and 18th November 2008) revolving around an 'experiment' with mental health issues. I have written about them on the Mental Health Forum and reproduce a version of my

Sara Paretksy

nick hay — 2008-11-15T12:02:00Z

It must have been back in March or April that we went to hear Sara Paretsky speak in the somewhat unlikely surroundings of Sandwell Town Hall (it was Sandwell Libraries who have an excellent programme who had arranged the visit). Paretsky was speakin

Grayling on Reading

nick hay — 2008-11-03T15:09:00Z

We went to hear A C Grayling at the Birmingham Book Festival on 23rd October; he was giving a talk on Reading. In strong comparison with his talk of 2007 on Liberty I found some of hs central contentions this time highly questionable. This is n

The subjectivity of reviews.

nick hay — 2008-11-03T14:13:00Z

It is obvious that Book Reviews are subjective, biased and ideological. I would certainly not claim to be free from any of these faults when reviewing for Reviewing the Evidence. But once in a while one comes across a case where there are two r

October 2008 Catch-up

nick hay — 2008-10-17T14:14:00Z

Very strange! My main - desktop - computer has just been taken away; it has been misbehaving for some time. I suspected that this was due to its' insides being absolutely filthy and therefore getting too hot and this is exactly what the technicia

Liza

nick hay — 2008-06-05T11:59:00Z

Although my blog has almost fallen into desuetude I just want to commemorate that on 4th June 2008 I saw, nay witnessed, Liza Minnelli in concert for the second time in my life; and, as with the first time, this was one of the great events of my life

Parris on Britain 2008

nick hay — 2008-01-24T23:37:00Z

I know that I am not writing anything myself but...a.) I haven't been very well for the past couple of weeksb.) this is another of those essays - in this case a very short one - which demands to be reproduced everywhere.Now one does have to point

Hume on Health

nick hay — 2008-01-05T13:25:00Z

A wonderful column by Mick Hume from The Times of 4.1.08. Hume once again presents some of my own thoughts in a much more compelling and entertaining fashion; of course this is polemic - but what is wrong with polemic?