While London is renowned throughout the world for its myriad famous buildings and landmarks – the Tower of London, the Houses of Parliament, Buc...
Read MoreMonth: March 2016
Bullfighting, hey? Who’d watch it? Actually, quite a lot of people, if they have the opportunity. The photo on the home page shows the Plaza Mé...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Bullfighting and some other bull shtick
Imagine Donald Trump becoming President of the United States. Preposterous! A black fantasy! It would be like Sacha Baron Cohen becoming Prime Ministe...
Read MoreFANTASY: Trumpton Updated – Part I
There was no other way to look at it: the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, chose to sweeten the budget yesterday with news of a ‘su...
Read MoreFINANCE: A sweet and sour budget as George O prepares for the BoJo showdown
Something strikes you as you walk into Social Eating House. It’s a curtain, which is hanging just beyond the door. After that, things can only ...
Read MoreFOOD: Not entranced by the entrance but otherwise awesome
The latest offering from Joel and Ethan Coen is a hilarious tribute to 1950s Hollywood. It’s not so much an orthodox film – nor, with ack...
Read MoreFILM: Hail Clooney as the Coen brothers go camp and commie
The last feature in this category was about a book called Number 11. This one is about No. 10 – more specifically, the soon-to-be inhabitants o...
Read MoreFICTION: The politics of power and a bit on the side
Bilbao Airport, just inland from the Basque capital city and located at Sondica, used to be, frankly, an ugly place. But, hey, it’s an airport. ...
Read MoreFLYING: Ready for take-off in some style – and at quite some expense
I read a piece in The Guardian the other week – admittedly it was a diary piece, but it was in The Grauniad (sic) so it surely had to be accura...
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