Category Archives: In the Long Run

“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life…de dum…de dum…”

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Francis Pryor

We Brits are meant to be good at keeping our peckers up and smiling through adversity. But lately I’ve been having trouble finding my pecker, let alone keeping it up. Everything seems so gloomy and pointless. And it all came … Continue reading →

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Back to Nature – Again!

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Francis Pryor

We are living through very strange times. Laying aside the political melt-down which has become part of everyday life in Britain, we also seem to have taken our eye off the climate change problem – what in the 1970s we … Continue reading →

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Britain and Europe: The Long View

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Francis Pryor

Followers of this blog will know that one of my pet hates is the obsession modern politicians have with short-termism. And hence the name of this blog: In the Long Run. Over the past few months my posts have mostly … Continue reading →

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A Moment of Reality

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Francis Pryor

I spent three years as a student at Cambridge and never did so many things. I never visited the Fitzwilliam Museum. I never went inside King’s College Chapel. And I never visited Madingley American Cemetery. I soon put the first … Continue reading →

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The Long View: from the Floor

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Introductory Note This is the original version of the item I posted in the Independent blog. As ever, I over-wrote and then had to cut it back to 800 words, which is what they’d requested in the first place. Trouble … Continue reading →

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Time Team. The Great War: the great leveller

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Francis Pryor

Next Sunday is Remembrance Sunday: 11/11/12. At 4.40 in the afternoon Channel  4 will be broadcasting the programme we filmed at the Machine Gun Corps training camp at Belton Park, just outside Grantham, Lincolnshire. I’m not sure how this will … Continue reading →

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In The Long Run: Times of Change

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Francis Pryor

Every so often I want to try to live up to the title of this blog: In the Long Run. And now seems as good a time as any. Recent revelations about the latest nasty bit of bankers’ greed have … Continue reading →

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