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Jack Barrow

Windmills and electric cars are not the answer to zero carbon, but your shoes might be

There isn’t a corporation in the world that isn’t considering its green credentials. Google claims on its search page that it has been…

6 min readFeb 25, 2022

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Jack Barrow

International telephone scammers, Black Lives Matter and geopolitics

“Your Internet is getting disconnected…” That’s all I heard before I put the phone down on the recording of the rather improbably…

7 min readFeb 1, 2021

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Jack Barrow

Someone did the decent thing this morning

Since the end of the lockdown, or perhaps I should say Lockdown 1 as it seems it’s likely it’s no longer a singular, I’ve been preparing…

4 min readOct 1, 2020

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Jack Barrow

Four ambulances and an apocalypse

Some years ago I was stopped on an apparently open road by a policeman standing in front of an unattended ambulance. My curiosity, and…

6 min readJun 11, 2020

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Jack Barrow

How things have changed, or not changed, with the virus

People are saying how much has changed in just a few weeks. Suddenly people are at home, with their children full time, getting food has…

2 min readApr 3, 2020

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Jack Barrow

Venturing out amid the virus

People used to tell me that I should get out more. For the past few years I’ve been working from home as the sort of writing that is my…

6 min readMar 22, 2020

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Jack Barrow

Bournemouth, Wimborne, and how not to be a tourist

A few weeks ago, we went to Bournemouth, I say we went to Bournemouth, we actually went to Wimborne but in the two or three days we were…

17 min readFeb 3, 2020

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Jack Barrow

The Handmaid’s Tale — why I had to stop watching it on TV

The Handmaid’s Tale, that multi award winning 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, is in the news again. It’s in the news for its sequel being…

5 min readSep 10, 2019

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Jack Barrow

The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places — book review

By Neil Oliver

4 min readAug 12, 2019

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Jack Barrow

Ask an Astronaut — book review

By Tim Peake

2 min readMay 27, 2019

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Jack Barrow

Jack Barrow

Absurdist, gonzo, magick, fiction & non-fiction. Latest project #InSatNavWeTrust, a search for meaning through the Historic Counties of England.

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