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This is the blog of writers Tim Rich and Tom Lynham. It’s about the ideas, things, scenes, words and characters we encounter on our travels through life. Hence 66,000 miles per hour – our velocity as we fly through space and around the Sun. Regular topics include writing, business writing, design, photography, art and London life.
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 1W ago

Tosh?

‘A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.’ Oliver Wendell Holmes The [......
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 1M ago

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

Question: What do racism, ostracism, despotism, sectarianism, fanaticism, nationalism, evangelism, symbolism, jingoism, patriotism, puritanism, factionalism and totalitarianism have in common? Answer: Euphemism.     Just back from Berlin and the Topography of Terror project, which catalogu...
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 2M ago

Poetry in motion

I am sitting in the works canteen of LMS Engineering just outside Brussels with the founder Urbain Vandeurzen, and brand consultant Michael Wolff. The complex of offices and research labs is so immaculate you could eat your lunch off the surfaces – and we are; scallops simmered in white wine s...
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 2M ago

Blank verse

Fresh thoughts Think of everything Made for your world. Now that’s thought for food. Tim  
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 3M ago

Hoxton Bienniale

Just recovering from the launch party of the 5th Hoxton Biennale. The months of preparation are as exhausting as they are exhilarating, but it’s worth all the effort when I see the streets, cafes, bars, galleries and public buildings filling with heart-stopping works of staggering genius.
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 3M ago

The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life

‘In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London.’ With these words the Spitalfields Life blog was born, back in August 2009.
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 3M ago

You count

Waitrose – it’s the first time I’ve seen the new ‘You count’ line. I just can’t stop misreading it without the ‘o’ after the ‘c’.
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 3M ago

Comfortable among the clouds

Joseph Roth’s What I Saw captures his impressions and observations as he wanders Berlin in the years between the two World Wars. He re-constructs the city before the reader’s eyes. But it’s very much his Berlin – one moment a hard reality of stone and traffic, the next a floating world of dizzying s...
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 3M ago

Buskers told to Foxtrot Oscar

‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’
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66000 Miles Per Hour · 5M ago

Consider yourself at home

This is one of my favourite customer service signs, complete with seasonal make-over. You’ll find it in Gaddis & Co, in Luxor, Egypt.
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