A COMIC/SERIOUS IMMORALITY TALE FOR OUR TIMES (a fantasy if it’s your sort of scene) The story starts in London around 18 months ago, beginning ...
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A COMIC/SERIOUS IMMORALITY TALE FOR OUR TIMES (a fantasy if it’s your sort of scene) The story starts in London around 18 months ago, beginning ...
Read MoreFANTASY: Love is a Battlefield – Part I of 10
You may have heard that Tiger Woods won a golf tournament yesterday. A sentence that used to be almost as routine as remarking that the sun had come u...
Read MoreGOLF: Paris prepares for the Ryder Cup
A very brief blog in this category this time around, with the emphasis perhaps being on the ‘this time around’. This is what you want to s...
Read MoreFLYING: Bringing a lot of baggage with it…
Britain’s newest star of track and field is on the cover of this week’s Evening Standard magazine. Dina Asher-Smith won three gold medals...
Read MoreFASHION: Cover girls and no more Burberry going up in flames
Goodsway used to be one of the grimmest streets in London. Linking the road between King’s Cross and St Pancras stations to York Way, not a salu...
Read MoreFOOD: KC – in the sunshine, grand
This is a clever book but not to the extent that it’s too clever by half. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (the jacket is shown on the ...
Read MoreFICTION: Swanning around to malevolent effect
St Tropez is surely one of the most glamorous places on the French Riviera. A military stronghold and fairly ordinary fishing village until the begin...
Read MoreFOREIGN: A famously stylish site facing north in the South of France
It was reported earlier this week, notably via a front-page story in The Times, that things are warming up when it comes down to sorting out Britain&#...
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