Last week saw the eighth annual Scotch Egg Challenge at The Canonbury gastropub, not far from where I live in North London. I can’t say that wil...
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This coming Sunday will see the staging of the League Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. These days it’s called the Carabao Cup, its immediate previ...
Read MoreFOOTBALL: Wembley Stadium – Arsenal’s (sort of) home from home
As our prime minister, Mr Micawber….oops, sorry, Mrs May, is well-known for thinking, something will turn up. Surely it will? Won’t it? As...
Read MoreFINANCE: EUreka!…but the soft or the hard way?
Stieg Larsson’s first book in his Millennium trilogy was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, published in 2005. (A photo of the cover is on the ho...
Read MoreFICTION: Life after Larsson…but have we now had a surfeit of Salander?
Gary Oldman has apparently said he smoked 12 cigars a day for three months in order to achieve the right rasping sound of Winston Churchill’s vo...
Read MoreFILM: Churchill – a story of awe and war
A few weeks ago I was on a flight to somewhere and, quite unusually for me, I had my headphones on, listening to music, while the plane was being boar...
Read MoreFLYING: Going nuts (or not!) in the air
In November, my wife and I returned to Antigua. It looked as good as always (as you get an idea of from the photo on the home page). We did quite a lo...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Glorious panoramas but dodgy planning in paradise
In Douglas Adams’ famous novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 is the ‘Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life,...
Read MoreGOLF: Tiger @ 42 – A Thrillology in Fore! Parts
A couple of months ago I visited the annual art fair, Frieze London, held near the centre of town in Regent’s Park. It was a fantasy of sorts, i...
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