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Not With Your Gloves Tarquin
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— 3 Feb 2009 Pete Baran 2 comments

In Crouch End yesterday (this will become important) I saw a small child gleefully playing in the snow after being let out of school. The poor nipper was possibly upset that his primary school had not been closed by an inch of snow, but he was making[…]

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Reasons Why Milk Might Win Some Oscars
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— 3 Feb 2009 Pete Baran 6 comments

* I don’t think it will, by the way. Its a good, but pretty bogstandard, biopic which stands or falls – like most biopics – on how interesting you find the facts of Harvey Milk’s life. And in this case its Milk’s life […]

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