Frank Sinatra

Prisoners of the Past: Tony Blair, Trump and Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, February 22nd 2017 The past is a powerful force and that is even more true in the strange times we are living in. Take the waves of reaction and revulsion emerging last week after Tony Blair came back from the cold to announce his new initiative on Brexit. Blair’s intervention took place at the start of the 20^th anniversary of the first New Labour landslide, but also bizarrely after the Commons voted to trigger Article 50, and six days before two critical by-elections for

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The World We Knew: My Father and Frank Sinatra Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, March 10th 2015 Dads matter. They give us many things, including many reference points – like what it is to be a man, potentially a love of a football or rugby team, perhaps even some political views. I gained all of that from my father but one of the biggest, most evocative connections I have with him is through the music and voice of Frank Sinatra. My dad, Edwin, was born in 1933 and was a young man in the late 1940s and early 1950s when

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