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Henry Getley is a freelance journalist.

COVID-19

Letter from Local Lockdown Land

Henry Getley - September 20, 2020

‘TO the future or to the past ... from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – greetings!’

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Remember Arnhem

Henry Getley - September 17, 2020

IT was one of those warm, mellow September days with which England is sometimes blessed before autumn sets in.

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187 years down the line, is HS2 worth it?

Henry Getley - September 10, 2020

AFTER years of controversy and delay, an astonishing railway between London and Birmingham is finally being built. The journey time will be...

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Adele: Much hairdo about nothing

Henry Getley - September 4, 2020

THE singer Adele is in trouble for doing up her hair in an African-inspired style. Critics have accused her...

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The dust that got a life

Henry Getley - August 23, 2020

Life, an Unauthorised Biography, by Richard Fortey SOME four and a half billion years ago, clouds of dust and...

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Who wants to go to a hushball match?

Henry Getley - August 17, 2020

AMONG some of the funniest Monty Python sketches are The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights and Gunfight at the OK Corral in Morse Code. The action...

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A psychic surge? Who saw that coming?

Henry Getley - August 16, 2020

AH, the mist is clearing. I see legions of figures, troubled and torn by strife. They hunch over keyboards, feverishly Googling. Then...

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School poetry, Donne but not forgotten

Henry Getley - August 9, 2020

NEWS that schools can drop poetry from the GCSE English Literature syllabus has been greeted with dismay in some quarters.

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Sultans of the shovel

Henry Getley - August 7, 2020

The Railway Navvies, by Terry Coleman FANCY a little exercise? Then try this: Take a spade, go into your...

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A fugitive ship, an ocean of bloodshed

Henry Getley - August 2, 2020

The Ship That Changed the World, by Dan Van Der Vat August 1914, by Barbara Tuchman

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The comment denier

Henry Getley - August 1, 2020

HOW’S this for an insulting rant from Damian Carrington, the Guardian’s environment editor? He brands climate change deniers as...

BBC Watch

Exposed: The culture of ‘spite and venom’ behind the BBC’s trashing of Churchill

Henry Getley - July 28, 2020

WHAT sort of twisted, poisonous mindset leads the BBC to brand Winston Churchill a racist mass killer? One disturbing...

Culture Wars

A hero’s dog is hounded out of the RAF’s history

Henry Getley - July 21, 2020

I THOUGHT by now that I was wearily resigned to political correctness. But its latest manifestation provokes new depths of anger and...

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English remastered

Henry Getley - July 6, 2020

AND so another word bites the dust. Some estate agents are now apparently banning the phrase ‘master bedroom’, because ‘master’ is said...

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When Britain sailed close to an uncivil war with Abraham Lincoln

Henry Getley - June 24, 2020

FOLLOWING the death of George Floyd, the spectre of the Civil War is rising once again to haunt America.

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On Restoration Day, whither the monarchy?

Henry Getley - May 29, 2020

BELLS rang out, music played, wine flowed from the fountains and thousands packed the flower-strewn streets of London to cheer the tall,...

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