Arts
The Swaling, Part Forty Five
A Queen’s Messenger had called through the night with a letter. Unhelpfully, I was asleep under a bed at the time. My colleague, Natasha, took the call but, also unhelpfully, had gone work before I’d [more…]
Arts
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1981
Featured Album: Duran Duran – Duran Duran This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 4th March 2021 Panel: Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative) Lisa Nandy (Labour) Andy Palmer (Car industry executive) Theo Paphitis (Businessman) Miatta Fahnbulleh (Economist) Venue: London Puffin, as your humble author begins his modest review, you [more…]
Arts
Rough Gardening In A Pandemic (Laying The Ground) RIP Norman
It’s no secret that, by now, we’re all heartily pissed off with this whole Covid business. I could write a litany of woes, some deeply personal, some widely shared and others purely observational that would, [more…]
America
The Glorious Adventures Of Freckle Faced Meg
Speaking of happy couples, it is our silver wedding anniversary this week. You may think that after a quarter of a century it might be difficult to surprise a spouse. Think again. When my other [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Forty Four
We are together alone on the floor of Natasha’s Dolphin Square apartment. She has closed the curtains and sat on the opera glasses to attract my full attention. In doing so, she ended our nighttime [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1980
Featured Album: Roxy Music – Flesh and Blood This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 25th February 2021 Panel: Grant Shapps (Conservative) Anneliese Dodds (Labour) Tony Danker (Confederation of British Industry) Jeremy King (Restauranter) Joanne Grady (University and College Union) Venue: London The first question concerned contradictions within [more…]
Arts
Going Postal with Question Time
Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of BBC programming. On the panel are: Grant Shapps MP, secretary of state for transport, Conservative; Anneliese Dodds MP, shadow chancellor of the exchequer, [more…]