Other Men's Flowers

I don't read very many books nowadays (TV, shortened attention span, laziness, etc.) but I do read a lot of reviews. This gives me the f...

It sounded quite straightforward: our German friends had told us on a postcard, " Take the main road north out of the town, turn left a...

I am always sorry for male orchestral players in hot weather, for even today they are often expected to be formally dressed, while the audie...

God has given us through various messengers a great deal of information about how many of us are going to Heaven when The Rapture takes plac...

Only those who have actually been in mortal peril can know how they would react to it it. I know exactly how I would, for I did once face im...

...We can all look forward to despair... So sang Noel Coward in 1952, but in fact he was late with prophecies of doom, for by then things w...

Went to Charleston Farmhouse the other day; this is the Sussex retreat where the Bloomsbury group hung out during and after the First World ...

According to Matthew Fort in the Guardian , Adrian Sellick is not the last of the mudhorse fishermen: he is passing on his skills to his chi...

...it is probably a fraud. Yes, I know; however..... I like lieder, particularly Schubert's, and have a modest collection of recordings ...

Dr Tim Leunig, professor in economic history at LSE, tells us that the lucky ones among greengrocers forced out of trade by the supermarkets...

I see that a book about Fazab al-Basry Hashid is being published in the autumn. I was surprised to find that not only is this apparently the...

There are few activities made possible by the internet which are without question salutary; many of the things we can do on line are, or can...

...was one of the twelve red-bearded dwarfs whose exploits were chronicled by the journalist Beachcomber. The de Rooftrouser family were wel...

Last week I saw Peter Hall’s production of Pygmalion at the Old Vic and realised that I had never seen the play on the stage before, though...

More recycled posts from 2004: business Tastes in advertising have changed theatre Mummy and Daddy aren't a bit worried personal A life ...

...And beat him when he sneezes He only does it to annoy Because he knows it teases James Thurber was once asked by a publisher to provide ...

In G K Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday an actor successfully takes on the identity of a distinguished academic. He tells how this...

Ogden : what a man he was! Linguist, philosopher, inventor of Basic English, co-translator of Wittgenstein's great Tractatus , co-author...

A resounding raspberry was delivered in the House of Commons last night to Cardinal O'Connor, David Cameron, Ruth Kelly, Nadine Dorries ...

I can remember the thrill of seeing the Cinemascope version of The Robe . When it opened the screen got wider and wider and we all gasped in...