It can be a funny thing, fashion. To take a couple of contemporary examples from the newspapers, it is trendy to wear baggy clothing but it is also li...

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One extreme to the other

This has been a difficult year for the film industry. The long-running strike which delayed or halted the making of many movies, and prevented star na...

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Not an end of this era

The 16th fiction book published by Sebastian Faulks landed in bookstores last month. When I say “fiction book”, that is not a unanimous vi...

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On the run from the past

The Ryder Cup at the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club just outside Rome ended a couple of weeks ago. The event has left me with several memories, ...

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An Italian Ryder Cup

The week before last I was in Rome for the first time in Lord knows how long. It is hardly a controversial view to describe it as one of the most allu...

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Revisit to the Eternal City

After a six-year hiatus, Arsenal returned to play in the UEFA Champions League last Wednesday evening, with a home game at the Emirates Stadium agains...

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Champions League is back

I was reminded by a piece in The Guardian the other week that September has historically been a sometimes savage month for high finance. For example, ...

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Canary no more a gold mine

A couple of weeks ago I went to France for a few days, flying out of London City Airport on an early-morning British Airways flight to Nice. (There...

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Delays put into perspective