My wife and I went on a week’s holiday in the middle of last month, to Perast in Montenegro. It was lovely; I will be blogging about it another ...
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The current issue of Private Eye has an excellent short spoof piece headlined ‘London Fascist Week begins’. It notes that “black is ...
Read MoreM&S debut & PS birthday
I read an amusing light-hearted opinion piece in The Guardian last month. The headline was ‘You should be legally obliged to play Mr Brightside ...
Read More‘To love and to cherish’…
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is essentially composed of two parts: Buda, the area to the west of the River Danube, and Pest, the part to the east...
Read MoreA capital time in Budapest
(…headlined with sincerest apologies to the memory of George Orwell). The other week, for the first time in a long one, I went to Colbert, a bra...
Read MoreDine and out in London as in Paris…
Michael Frayn is an outstandingly accomplished writer. He is renowned for his plays, perhaps most notably Copenhagen. His non-fiction works include Th...
Read MoreAn arch place to stay
[OK, I’m going to write this piece without mentioning the Bryson DeChambeau second-day rules incident that led some people to claim he had tried to ...
Read MoreFox produces cunning, stunning finale
This is a blog about fantasy. Zac Brettler was a fantasist. That is fundamentally what got him killed. He was 19 years old when he died in November 20...
Read MoreHeading for a fall
Films about motor racing are not exactly a rarity. For example, last year saw the release of F1: The Movie, with Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem in the le...
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