Robert Ashton

Robert Ashton

@robert

Non-fiction author exploring how our past is increasingly informing our future.

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Robert Ashton
Robert Ashton
@robert · 8d

I was called yesterday by a debt collection agency, chasing money owned to HMRC.

This upset me more than it should, because the debt was not mine, but that of a company I established, then left six years ago.

Despite complaining and asking HMRC to update their records, my phone number remains the one associated with the company. I find this exasperating and have to explain each time, why the debt is not mine.

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Robert Ashton
Robert Ashton
@robert · 9d

In answer to Gibran’s question

I’ve had a thought provoking weekend.

On Saturday I saw the premiere of a new opera ‘My Father Cannot Speak’ at Britten Pears Arts Snape Maltings. Created by Ben Parry and Gareth Bardsley and sung by Roderick Williams it vividly describes a man’s relationship with his now dead father and his grown up son. My father died nearly 45 years ago, and we did not get on for a variety of reasons, but in some sense…

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