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I saw the film Avatar a couple of weeks ago. It was the full-fat, 3D, Imax experience, and I have to say, I really loved it. There’s no point in ...Read More
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I'm not one for thinking that we in the west are teetering on the edge of a police ...Read More
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Not a lot of time just at the moment. But, I've just read that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, (or Kellifwahnya, as he says) wants to get ...Read More
You can never look back, say all the admirable people. They say, “I don’t do nostalgia”, or, “I only think about the future, not the past”, or, “I look ahead, not backwards”.
Me, I’m constantly dredging up the past. How can ...Read More
This is terribly unscientific and off the cuff, but I've been writing about restaurants and discount offers recently. As I'm pulling to the end, I was thinking about some of the comments made by some of the experts and soothsayer ...Read More
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London has just seen its first espresso book machine become operational, in a West End branch of Blackwell's. I've been watching eagerly for signs of the demise of print as the digital revolution gathers ...Read More
Last night I went to see The Damned United, essentially the story of Brian Clough’s disastrous 44 days as manager of Leeds United in 1974. It stars the ever-present Michael Sheen as Clough, and Colm Meany as his nemesis, Don ...Read More
It’s another sunny day in London and we city folk are milling about slightly happier than we were a few months back, when it was cold and oppressive, and we were waiting for the bump at the bottom of the ...Read More
And here it begins. Again. This isn’t the first blog I’ve written; in fact, it’s really an update to one I began back in February this year. But I thought I should raise my game, really get down to serious ...Read More