THE SMALL THINGS

A blog of Scotland, horses, dogs, love and trees.

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Mrs Brown speaks

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Posted by Sarah Vine. Sarah Brown’s short speech ahead of her husband’s at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton will inevitably draw cont...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Politics as usual

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. Look, I am a Labour person. I’ve always been a Labour person. I have never voted for anyone else, ...
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Monday, 28 September 2009

In which I beg your indulgence

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. I know that my mission here is to entertain you, but today I must ask you all a huge favour. Instead of offerin...
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Sunday, 27 September 2009

Lovely Sunday Chicken

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. Before the heavenly chicken, a quick bit of housekeeping. As you may notice, I am trying out a new look. I am no...
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Saturday, 26 September 2009

Mists and mellow fruitfulness

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. If I had to choose a season it would be autumn. I think summer is over-rated, all that vulgar sunshine and bank...
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Thursday, 24 September 2009

Judgement Day

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. I was going to call this piece ‘How we judge’; that was how it first came to me. Then I realised that there was ...
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Mrs Palin goes East

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. In Hong Kong for a speech, Sarah Palin matched the verbose Colonel Gaddafi in length if not eclecticism. But she...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Today's miracle: the human voice

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. Ignore the crazy outfits; just listen to the music. There are only two things I really want to know: why can...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009

The old people

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. Some of the old people are going. It has been happening, slowly, over the last two years or so. I go to funerals...
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Sunday, 20 September 2009

Politically correct

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. It's strange, the voices that linger in your head. The ones I keep hearing from this week are: William Shaw...
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Friday, 18 September 2009

In which I get serious about race

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. Sarah rings up over the Jimmy Carter flap . She is uncertain whether it helps anything at all. ‘It just turns O...
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009

The Eye of the Beholder

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. I have been thinking this week about beauty, and the images of it that trap women. Scooting around the internet ...
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Monday, 14 September 2009

Something to make you go Ah

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. I hate to do this to my non-Blighty readers, for whom the BBC iplayer is a ruthless no go zone, but there is s...
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Sunday, 13 September 2009

Who is this woman and why does she matter?

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. I was having a nice quiet Sunday, browsing around on the interwebs, listening to a fascinating programme on Radi...
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Saturday, 12 September 2009

A walk in the woods

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Posted by Tania Kindersley. Over at The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan has a lovely feature called The View From Your Window . Readers of his b...
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