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CIPC #207: Norwich union ad

Posted on February 2, 2021February 2, 2021

Norwich! The great city of Norwich! Its cathedral, its mustard, its football team, its famous sons Lord Nelson and Alan Partridge,1 its union. Yes, its…

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CIPC #206: Chess in ‘Popular science’

Posted on January 26, 2021

Nothing is quite as unsettling to a scientist than his subject becoming self aware. Imagine the biologist that suddenly finds his fruit flies peering at…

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CIPC #205: Father Brown S2 E1, The ghost in the machine

Posted on January 19, 2021

I have sung the praises of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories before, so I will now just suffice by saying that I still stand by those…

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CIPC #204: B.C. June 9th, 2013

Posted on January 12, 2021

Last year, we started with some high-brow Culture with a capital C. As there is a widely supported consensus that 2020 was not one of…

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CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2020

Posted on January 5, 2021

Never before have people been so eager for a year to end. All because they cannot wait for my review of the year. I can…

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CIPC #203: Asterix Vol.4, Asterix the gladiator

Posted on December 29, 2020

Sic transit gloria mundi! There is no better way to summarise the fate of the Asterix series. It started all the way back in 1959…

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CIPC #202: The manhole

Posted on December 23, 2020

2020 has become the year of video games. People have been at home rather more than usual and, naturally, they spend it playing Fortnite, Among…

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CIPC #201: De strateeg ad

Posted on December 16, 2020

Our subject for today is a podcast. Well, not quite. It’s some kind of ad that, at the time of writing, appears as the official…

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CIPC #200: S. S. Van Dine, Le fou des échecs

Posted on December 9, 2020

This is the third year now that I do this blog. I have touched on movies, television series, paintings, comics, literature, sculptures – pretty much…

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CIPC #199: Alice in Wonderland

Posted on December 1, 2020

If you were to ask some random schmuck from the streets to give an example of chess in popular culture, provided you do this at…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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