Arts

Postcard from Lille, Part 29

7th September 2019 Always Worth Saying 0

Tangled up in the Vizconce massacre investigation and having just escaped from a Filipino jail, I’m now on the run and heading south to lie low long enough to be forgotten about. I have a letter of [more…]

Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

6th September 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

Question Time 5th September 2019 Panel: Special Limited Collector’s Edition. Once only offer. Richard Tice – Brexit Party Kwasi Kwarteng – Tory Ian Dale – broadcaster Lady Nugee – Labour Ian Blackford – SNP Layla [more…]

Going Postal with Question Time

5th September 2019 Going Postal 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Westminster. On the panel: Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Brexit minister, Conservative; Emily Thornberry MP, shadow foreign secretary, Labour; Layla Moran MP, [more…]

Noise

3rd September 2019 James Dalton 0

The hacks and TV heads are currently having a collective meltdown. The 31st of October is less than two months away and the remaining Remainers who George Galloway likened to “a collapsing soufflé” are making [more…]

Cruising on again

2nd September 2019 Sweaty Dave 0

Last year, in the spirit of the series of travelogue postcards often presented on this site, I wrote first timer’s guide to going on a cruise. The one in question was a TUI/Marella cruise around [more…]

Postcard from Lille, Part 28

31st August 2019 Always Worth Saying 0

At 5227 San Augustin Street, Makati City, after dark, there were no yellow ribbons for me nor a line of concerned people praying and clutching the rosary. A maid answers the door and looks surprised rather than [more…]

Meet Markos Vamvakaris (“Mark Cotton”) – Patriarch of Rebetiko

29th August 2019 Going Postal 0

Some things are not quite what they seem: hardly an earth-shattering perception, but you have to start somewhere. I imagine that a fair number of GPers have spent a holiday in Greece. I dare say [more…]

Bollocks to Krauts! Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl

26th August 2019 Going Postal 0

“Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl” was inspired by a story which circulated within dissidents circles when I was a student in Moscow in the early 1980s: several villages in Siberia were so remote [more…]

Postcard from Lille, Part 27

24th August 2019 Always Worth Saying 0

If we’re ever in the same place at the same time, I’m the quiet one standing in the corner, keeping his own council, people-watching, shy (or even just plain rude). I might be in my own little [more…]