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...Even today Watts has his admirers. I was surprised to discover that Barack Obama had declared Hope, a painting by Watts, his favourite work of art...
Author and journalist Richard Donkin has reservations about the newly refurbished Watts Gallery.
Richard Donkin has been bitten by the photography bug.
...I suspect he has become too successful, too rich and far too famous to give two hoots about what anyone thinks of him, including the management of the BBC...
Richard Donkin considers a comment made by TV personality Jeremy Clakson which aroused the ire of those who rush to judgement.
...I have provided the link and no doubt you will click on it as I did, but let me warn you that if you are British it will spoil your day if you have any shred of pride in what it is to be British....
Richard Donkin is saddened by the fact that loathsome vestiges of racism continue to flourish in Britain.
Richard Donkin is getting used to a "teenage'' dog who has decided to push the boundaries.
"I love art galleries. I put it down to the slide shows of great paintings we had in school and the enthusiasm shown by our art teacher, Bob Donald. I can remember him now, as if it was yesterday, describing the lush bits in a Renoir nude. For prebubescent boys it was heady stuff,'' writes author and journalist Richard Donkin.
Richard Donkin goes green,
A walk in New York led author and journalist Richard Donkin to ask some serious questions.
"I enjoy taking pictures and don't want to feel like a criminal if I walk around with a camera around my neck,'' declares Richard Donkin.
...The house sort of implodes when George comes home. There's an earthquake whenever he goes upstairs. He has some ridiculous "animal feet" slippers that Pippa, our Jack Russell, has decided are wild and dangerous...
Richard Donkin tells of the "joys'' pf home life.
Richard Donkin has set himself the task of publishing on the Net a new picture a day for 365 days.
Richard Donkin tels of a 97-mile (or was it 98) "stroll'' in Scotland.
"Yes there are times - not many - when a hoard fulfills its raison d'etre,'' reports Richard Donkin.
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Enthusiastic dad Richard Donkin introduces us to a brilliant new game designed by his sons John and Rob.
...Nice cottage; I left a peemail within minutes of getting through the door. The governor didn't like that. There were lots of other dog smells too. It looked promising...
Pippa the young terrier has been spending a few days in Scotland. Thanks to his owner, Richard Donkin, we are able to bring you a dog's-eye view of the holiday.
In the aftermath of rioting in various English cities, author and columnist Richard Donkin agrees with the view that it is not just its damaged youth, but Britain itself that needs a moral reformation.”
Richard Donkin's talented sons launch a new game.
...Pippa can become a little too demanding.
She has all the toys and accessories a girl could want: a pad of her own, fast cars, servants, pedicures and an adoring public wherever she goes. I always wondered what it would take to break the reserve of Surrey people. Just bring on the puppy and they turn to mush...
Richard Donkin tells of training his new Jack Russell pup. Or is he the one in training?
...The Star is not wanted now: cancel every one;
Pack up the Mirror and dismantle the Sun;
Cast away the broadsheets, pour out the printers'ink,
The plug is pulled on Fleet Street and it's going down the sink....
Journalist, author and blogger Richard Donkin contemplates the closure of Britain's leading Sunday newspaper.
"Journalism used to be about reporting news. Now it is about filling newspapers, or, and this is more troubling, the vast boundaryless expanses of the internet,'' declares Richard Donkin.
"This is not a game: it’s the dog or me and there can be only one winner,'' writes Richard Donkin. But who is the winner, Richard, or his Jack Russell pup Pippa?
"Ten days in to life with our new Jack Russell puppy, Pippa, a pattern is developing of sorts. The battle of wills continues and she is trying her damnedest to assert herself on the pack, picking off the weakest – poor old Dougie, our 12-year-old Westie – first,'' writes Richard Donkin.
"Donkin Life is very quickly becoming a dog's life. Pippa, our 10-week-old Jack Russell is chewing her way through our woodwork like a beaver on dam duty. I think she must understand her name now as Pippa-no,'' writes Richard Donkin.
"She’s called Pippa, she’s a ten-week-old Jack Russell and she’s the latest addition to the Donkin household,'' Richard Donkin announces..
Richard Donkin remembers his father and uncles in the following fine poem.
...We just want our boys to be happy and fulfilled. They're not establishing careers through a parent's contact or because a parent thinks that's what they should do. We just stand back and watch how they get on and sometimes make a comment which they either accept or ignore...
Proud parent Richard Donkin tells of his three inventive and ingenious sons.
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"It started with a throwaway line on Facebook after an observation that I'd been in Scotland a lot these past few weeks. Now I've decided it's time I affirmed my Scottishness,'' declares author and journalist Richard Donkin.
"Life is for living. It's not just about earning lots of dosh. And our quality of life is not something to which can be attached some monetary value, no matter how much the Exchequer wishes it was,'' declares Richard Donkin.
Richard Donkin's poem records a week spent in Scotland - remote from control.
Author and journalist Richard Donkin tells of the theft of stone and history.
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A visit to Dublin inspired Richard Donkin to write a poem.
Richard Donkin confesses that The Daily Telegraph can be counted on to stir up his ire.
Richard Donkin tells of the success of his son Rob whose latest game Hambo is proving to be a huge success.
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Richard Donkin tells of a day when words and thoughts were elusive.
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"Woking eased itself comfortably in to the book of Crap Towns . It is utterly lacking in charm and seems to be run by people whose architectural vision does not extend beyond concrete tower blocks and multi-storey car parks. Yet every town has something to offer,'' says Richard Donkin, going on to mention some of the town's attractions.
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Richard Donkin recalls the most costly maritime disaster in British history.
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Columnist and author Richard Donkin recalls the worlds of Noggin the Nog and the Clangers.
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Richard Donkin questions whether the Queen's head should appear on postage stamps if Britain's Royal Mail is privatised.
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Richard Donkin highlights the amazing story of Tony Quan, a man who can write with his eyes.
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Richard Donkin highlights the folly of investing in financial bubbles.
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...The rudeness of southerners has to be experienced to be believed. They have no trouble blanking you if you say “hello” when passing them in the street, even if you say it again, loudly and more aggressively, waving in their face the Ł10 note they have dropped....
And now Yorkshire-born Richard Donkin finds that he is turning into a southerner.
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Richard Donkin finds himself musing upon whether there is a place for hot water cafes.
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Richard Donkin tells of the lonely challenge of breakfast time in a conference hotel.
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...We'd come home with chapped legs and raw knees - yes we sledged in short pants - all rosy cheeked and ready for the stew and dumplings that our mothers knew we needed. "Sithee 'ere, these'll stick to your ribs," my Auntie Joyce would say, thrusting a hot bowl of stew under our noses and we'd wolf it down and get back out in the snow...
Richard Donkin would not swap his childhood for the "indoor'' lives of today's children.
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Can't make your mind up on which Christmas presents to buy for friends and family?
Columnist Richard Donkin comes to the rescue.
Richard Donkin was pleased to see that one national English newspaper chose not to lead its front page with the announcement of a royal engagement.
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...In short the full Twickenham package is crap and overpriced. The established supporters have known this for some time and they're voting with their feet...
Richard Donkin issuesd a tyimely warning to the Rugby Football Union.
Richard Donkin tells of FT days.
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Richard Donkin's talented son Rob has launched a new game, Toxers.
Richard Donkin tells the delicious tale of a car fitted with a special button designed to deal with naughty boys.
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Richard Donkin says there is still a sensitivity to doing anything to remind French people of their country's capitulation during World War Two.
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The world needs a green Santa and Coca Cola needs tyo make it happen, declares Richard Donkin.
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Richard Donkin tells of two "old dogs'' in a park, one of them finding yesterday's currency.
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The bumblebee, songthrush, oak tree, deep-sea coral and the bluebell.
Should one of these become the national emblem for Britain? Richard Donkin highlights an Earthwatch debate.
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Richard Donkin tells of his games designing son, Rob, who is entertaining and challenging millions of Internet games players around the world.
Richard Donkin tells of the joy of salmon fishing on the River Dee.
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...the heart of any garden is its tool and potting shed. I love these places with their spades, forks and hoes and their shiny handles, worn through years of work...
Richard Donkin visits the Eden Project and the garden at Heligan.
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Richard Donkin and his family enjoyed a sunny day in Mevagissey.
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Richard Donkin visits Stourhead, a National Trust property.
...The garage clean up produced a few shocks. Our garage had become mouse city. There were live mice, dead mice and skeletal mice in places. Some of the old papers I had stored there had been chewed up as nesting material. There was also a trail of dog food from the plastic bin where we store our dog's kibbles...
Richard Donkin and his wife Jill are at war with unwelcomed visitors.
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Richard Donkin has a shrewd idea of the identity of the thief stealing things from his garden.
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Richard Donkin enthuses about a pastime which he says is much better than watching telly.
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Richard Donkin goes on the tough walk from one side of England to the other with his son George.
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Richard Donkin likes his 13-year-old Chrysler Jeep but is frustrated by the security protection deemed necessary for its radio.
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...Forty years on, I wonder how I survived all that kit modelling, sniffing all that glue and solvents, working with razor blades. The world was such a dangerous place back then...
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Richard Donkin contemplates circular fried eggs and high risk sandwiches.
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...One thing that struck me straight away was just how normal they all were. Peter Sallis who played Clegg and Brian Wilde who played Foggy Dewhurst were particularly engaging, moaning quite a bit about the lot of the jobbing actor; because that is what they were before their new found fame and security in a hit comedy series.
Bill Owen was friendly enough but he was in and out of the caravan talking to his agent about various supermarket openings. He loved the recognition he found in the local community and was perhaps the most star struck of the three, but not in the way we might think of that term today...
Richard Donkin recalls the day he interviewed the Summer Wine stars.
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...Yes, THAT noise. That noise anyone would do their utmost to silence if they had not been brainwashed for weeks previously that it was all part of the unique atmosphere of football in South Africa. Come on now, how many of us in the UK had heard of a vuvuzela before this year's World Cup Finals? One in 10? One in a hundred? One in a thousand, more like...
Richard Donkin has found a way of getting rid of the horrible racket which is plagueing millions of TV viewers.
...The best tip there is the advice to take an interest in other people and that, I realise, is where I have been going wrong...
Richard Donkin emerges from the seclusion enforced by writing a book.
...I don't know whether it's a masterpiece or not. How can I judge? But I know that it's better than a lot of the crap out there. I should know, I've read enough of it. It's a real story with a front a middle and a back and it's very readable, not like some of this experimental stuff that wins Booker Prizes. Somebody somewhere will want to publish it. But where are they?..
Richard Donkin is determined to get his first novel published.
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...If you do contact an agent, forget an email, the means by which most of us communicate. Forget sending the manuscript as an attachment, the quick and easy way. No, best to have written your novel in tablets of stone wrapped in vellum, sealed with the best bees wax and delivered by personal courier wedged between his cherubic bum cheeks...
Richard Donkin, with two well-received well-researched non-fiction books under his belt, has just finished writing his first novel. Now all he needs is an agent...
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...watching Ridley Scott's latest Robin Hood blockbuster I thought for a few minutes I was watching Saving Private Ryan with chain mail...
Richard Donkin enjoys the latest film version of the Robin Hood story.
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Richard Donkin questions the judgement of a BBC television news editor.
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Richard Donkin finds himself all alone in a cold world.
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...When younger, the boys were manageable. Now, as grown men, they occupy our home like ever-growing cuckoo chicks, beaks agape, squeezing their desperate parents from the nest...
Richard Donkin tells of the questionable delights of bringing up sons.
...You wouldn't have found articles by Hunter S Thompson in the Reader's Digest. Like many readers, my first encounter with the magazine was in a dental surgery. I remember before one check-up becoming engrossed in a feature headed: "I am John's testicle."...
Richard Donkin comments on the news that the UK arm of Reader's Digest has gone into administration.
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Richard Donkin broods upon terminal matters on a sour day.
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Richard Donkin tells of the absorbing business of writing a novel.
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Richard Donkin receives information on the death of his great grandfather more than a hundred years ago.
Richard Donkin zestfully joins in a debate on the progress of women.
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...There was occasional film of George involved in angry exchanges with a parent, and George stamping around his room, pleading, often without success, for use of the car...
Richard Donkin wryly reports on a teenage son's reluctance to revise for exams.
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...There will come a time, maybe 50 years in to the future when the rationing of fossil fuels will become a reality, either that or they will have been priced out of the market for most people. When that happens we shall lean increasingly on alternative sources...
A power cut and a heavy snowfall led Richard Donkin to contemplate life's real essentials.
...But last night it snowed a lot and this morning we had a power cut. Cooking porridge on the gas by the light of a candle at 6.30 am, unable to get the car out of the drive, there was little else to do but ponder on the things we take for granted...
Britain's harsh winter leads Richard Donkin to contemplate the future.
Richard Donkin recommends a six-and-a-half minute film that could change your view on the importance of humankind.
...We called them auntie Annie and auntie Hilda. I don't know their histories but they were part of that generation that lost so many boyfriends and husbands during the First World War.
On the wall of their house they had an old whip - a cat-o-nine-tails - and its presence was used as a reminder of its terrible potential for inflicting punishment on naughty children. I suppose nuclear weapons have the same value today on a larger scale...
Richard Donkin, recalling his childhood, is in full agreement with the findings of a recent report - dirt is good for you.
Richard Donkin tells of the hassle of acquiring and decoating the must-have Christmas tree.
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Author Richard Donkin is puzzled by the wide range of prices on the same book offered by retailers.
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Richard Donkin has fun with a gun in the county of Devon.
...Blowing up tanks and mowing down troops, on the other hand, was perfectly acceptable. I had a green rug by my bed which made a perfect battlefield. While my armies were capable of inflicting serious casualties on each other it was nothing to the mayhem my mother could reek with her feet as she made the bed...
Richard Donkin reflects upon the fact that young men still love war.
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...Do me a favour and send them a rude message. How dare this company sanction the exploitation of an individual in this way?...
Richard Donkin invites help in striking back at the firm which "borrowed'' his email address to sell Korean electrical goods.
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Richard Donkin does not envy the winners of a Ł45 million Euro lottery prize.
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Youtubers have turned Hitler into a major figure of fun, as Richard Donkin reveals.
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...They put me through to the nuisance calls service, probably because they know a nuisance call when they get one. A man there told me that we had been the victims of a "silent call". These are calls from automated diallers in call centres that for some reason do not hook you up with the caller (probably the callers have more sense than to pick up the phone). Ofcom doesn't like them but the calling companies are hardly trembling at the knees...
Richard Donkin is annoyed by a phone call in the middle to the night.
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...The other night I undressed, getting ready for bed, while chatting to Gill about something. Before I knew it I was half dressed again with fresh clothes. Looking around the room I knew I had missed something - ah yes, of course, the night!...
Richard Donkin's memory serves him just long enough to remember embarrassing incidents of forgetfulness.
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This Christmas poem by Arnold Kellett was set to music for junior choir and orchestra by Martin Hotton.
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...Today GPs have devised a brilliant appointments system that has probably turned out to be the best cure available on the National Health Service. By the time you get your appointment you're feeling better...
Hypchondriac Richard Donkin pays another visit to the surgery and discovers that this time he really does have something that needs to be fixed.
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...Bob was quite taciturn and not given to outbursts of bonhomie. Asked a little while back whether he wanted beef or salmon for lunch, he replied: "Not salmon."...
Richard Donkin mourns the loss of a much-loved uncle.
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Richard Donkin highlights a piece of sci-fi borough council "vandalism''.
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...It would be far more interesting to mill around the waiting room reacquainting Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, Brian Clough and Don Revie. Get the introduction over with, then stand well back....
Richard Donkin tells of a book by neuroscientist David Eagleman that imagines what happens to us after death.
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...When the sheep run off among the spectators and cars as one group did, there is nothing for the shepherd to do but to walk off, er…sheepishly....
Richard Donkin attends the Patterdale Dog Day.
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...We had a brand new raft design, simple, neat and practical – a large chunk of polystyrene, sandwiched between two sheets of plywood. The only doubt was: would it hold four hefty Vikings?...
Richard Donkin and three pals again enter the River Lowther raft race.
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...There are simply too many signs. Why can't we be left alone to discover the sharpness of bends, the bumpiness of roads or the steepness of hills?...
Richard Donkin is tired of the bureaucrats who are littering our roadsides with too many warnings.
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Richard Donkin tells of a fraught anniversary.
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Richard Donkin tells of HardJet, a frustrating, nerve-twanging travel game which tests stamina, resolve and determination to the limit.
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Richard Donkin harbours gloomy thoughts about the future of Wimbledon tennis.
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Richard Donkin considers the effects of rumours and mass hysteria.
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Richard Donkin tells of a new game devised by his son Rob.
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...I'm reminded at these matches about Norman Tebbit's infamous "cricket test" of national sympathies. Most of the Indian crowd, I would guess, would be British nationals. So shouldn't they have been supporting England? I don't see why this should be an issue. It's natural to stay close to your roots in sport. I live in Surrey today but as a Yorkshireman I know which team I want to win the county championship, and it isn't Surrey...
Richard Donkin says it takes more than a passport and an oath of loyalty to turn your back on the country of your birth.
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...It's not often that you come across 150 journalists in a bar, buying their own drinks out of their own pockets with not an expenses receipt between them...
Richard Donkin attends a get-together of ex-Financial Times journalists.
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Richard Donkin has fun exploring a couple of Web sites.
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Richard Donkin comments with his customary wit and style on the MPs' expenses scandal.
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Should an economist be aware that a financial crisis is imminent? Richard Donkin tells of royal concern.
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Richard Donkin reports an increased demand for masks following the arrival of swine flu.
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Richard Donkin tells of an unwelcomed house guest.
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...This morning I heard a commotion outside and went to the bedroom window to see a magpie in the centre of the lawn being attacked by three blackbirds and a blue tit...
Richard Donkin tells of high drama in his own back garden.
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Richard Donkin is tormented by a phone call in the middle of the night.
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Fishing on the River Tweed is an expensive hobby, as Richard Donkin reveals.
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Richard Donkin hails William Wilberforce, a great Englishman and "a voice of reason and compassion in a world that had launched itself on an unbridled expansion of trade and commerce in which ethical, moral and religious concerns had been trampled beneath a headstrong pursuit of wealth and position.''
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Richard Donkin visits the scene of some of the bloodiest battles ever fought by man.
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Richard Donkin tells of a lady fined Ł75 for feeding birds - and contrasts her fate to that of bankers who fed millions of pounds to the birds.
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Richard Donkin tells of a succesful breeding programme to restore a once-rare bird to the Chilterns.
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...Euro-Disney is too dreadful for words. If Dante had tried to pen his Divine Comedy on a Disney holiday this would be the model for his inferno...
Richard Donkin is far from being enchanted by a contrived world of supposed delight.
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...Cuts, bumps, grazes and sprains just happen when you fall on snow. It's part of life. But it's nothing that should trouble a hospital or the emergency services. You fall over, you get up, rub the sore bit and dust yourself down...
Richard Donkin tells of the fuss surrounding a small incident.
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...I wish I hadn't opened it. Unopened boxes are far more interesting. But as I removed the cardboard outer my excitement increased because inside the box was....
So what was inside the box which arrived at Richard Donkin's home? And did it really bring happiness?
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Richard Donkin tells of "stars'' who blot their copyn books bigtime.
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...Edward Stourton, the BBC Today programme presenter, has recalled in his new book, It's a PC World, a conversation he had with the late Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, about the European Union.
She told him: "It will never work, you know....It will never work with all those Huns, wops and dagos."...
Author and journalist Richard Donkin tells of royal political incorrectness.
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Richard Donkin tells of “petty’’ workplace issues that really matter a great deal.
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...I wrote a letter describing how I thought cremations and burials were something of a waste of a useful resource and that a better idea after death would be to convert people's remains to compost...
Richard Donkin muses on the disposal of the remains when we are no longer who we are.
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...handkerchiefs, compasses, money belt, pen knives, travel plug adaptors, ear plugs, garden ties and labels, bow ties and old keys...
A man's drawer is his grown up security blanket, says Richard Donkin.
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Richard Donkin gives instructions on how to make a tasty curry.
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...I do think there is a link between Islamic intolerance and Western moral decline. Every terrible outrage demands that we hold a mirror to our own behaviours, actions and beliefs...
Richard Donkin comments on the deplorable lack of taste in a BBC programme, yet another example of the weakening values which have created a moral vacuum in Western society.
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...OK, there was no water when we arrived, no toilet rolls, soap, washing up liquid or kitchen rolls. It was as if the god of cleanliness had demanded a particularly thorough sacrifice from the previous tenants....
Despite this Richard Donkin and his family enjoyed a wonderful holiday in Tuscany.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin makes a sobering discovery.
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Richard Donkin says that radicalism is now driven by religion rather than politics.
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Richard Donkin tells of a crisis in the bee world that could have catastophic consequences for humankind.
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...Life can be dangerous thank goodness. That's what makes it worth living...
Richard Donkin abhors killjoys who try to supress the sense of adventure.
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The best toy in the world costs nothing, as author and journalist Richard Donkin reveals.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin is neither shaken nor stirred by the new Bond film.
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Richard Donkin introduces us to Bill Foggitt, a shy but slightly mischievous character who was more of a co-conspirator rather than a straightforward source for snippets on weather lore.
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So what exactly is a Russian oligarch? Author and journalist Richard Donkin explains all.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin stands up for the creatures of the sea.
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Journalist and author Richard Donkin relishes his native dialect.
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Author and Journalist Richard Donkin is convinced that crossword compilers occupy a world of their own, cloaked in their own thoughts and imagery drawn from gentler days.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin tells of a wet, windy and fun time in Cumbria.
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...We've had two of everything for a while. It's when you start to get three of everything that you know you're in trouble. A third vacuum cleaner arrived in midweek from our next door neighbour who is moving to Switzerland. It's a great vac so it was out with my dad's old upright....
But Richard Donkin hates to throw away anything that is still serviceable.
Richard broaches an idea that is so sound and sensible the “authorities’’ will inevitably ignore it.
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Richard Donkin samples the effectiveness of a new search engine.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin thinks that the Kennel Club should do more to address the perils of in-breeding pedigree dogs.
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Richard Donkin points out that the world is getting rounder – particularly so in the US of A.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin does not fancy meals in suspension.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin brings a thought-provoking link for anyone thinking of a career in the City.
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...We used to put the world to rights in pubs. Now we do so on internet forums...
Richard Donkin does not welcome some of the social changes in smoke-free Britain.
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Richard Donkin highlights some youtube treasures.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin samples a hypnotic musical arrangement.
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...We should accept that there has always been something roguish about a system that allows its market to be run as a race-course betting operation...
Author and journalist Richard Donkin comments on unscrupulous stock market traders who spread rumours to force down the price of a partcular share.
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Despite industrial decline some British rivers are still being polluted, as Richard Donkin reports.
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Journalist and author Richard Donkin samples social networking on the Net.
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Author and journalist Richard Donkin muses on the history of the Stone of Destiny, better known as the Stone of Scone, and the future of the British monarchy.
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Richard Donkin sees no point in disturbing the graves of soldiers who died in World War One.
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Stonehenge considered a “Salisbury folly’’? Egyptians grumbling about the pyramids?
Journalist and author Richard Donkin muses on the past and future of public art.
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Words by journalist and author Richard Donkin will soon be featured in Open Writing.
Richard is the author of Blood, Sweat and Tears http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Sweat-Tears-Evolution-Work/dp/1587990768/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214554429&sr=1-2 and a Financial Times columnist.
His first column in Open Writing will appear next Monday.
Here's a brief outline of Richard's career so far. Be on the lookout for thoughts from a lively mind.
