Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We are all formed as adults from our experiences as a child, but even more – consciously or unconsciously – from our deeper family experiences long, long before. For each of us the marker poles and the touchstones are different. One of mine is being a victim of child abuse – rape really, even though […]
Hawtrey last hit the headlines in 1984, when a rent boy set his house on fire. Newspaper photographs showed him naked except for a blanket without his toupee. Four years later he died as a result of peripheral vascular disease. https://laurenceraw.tripod.com/id481.html He was sacked from the Carry Ons in 1972 after turning up drunk for […]
Damon Runyon was, to people like you and me, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. As a journalist he covered everything – racing, sport, gambling crime, life, the lot – and he did it all with aplomb. Sport, the punt and horses aren’t modern day writer Matthew Condon’s thing, but crime is. […]
