In a characteristically witty email today, my pal Mick shared his horror at realising he agreed with something Hitchens had written in the Quail on Sunday. Relax Michael. It’s cognitive dissonance makes us uncomfy when people with views we detest … Read More »
If I hadn’t spent my Xmas/New Year gap week in Copenhagen I’d probably have filed Danish Girl – man discovers he’s a woman trapped in the wrong body – under Worthy-but-Dull and given it a miss. So I’m now doubly … Read More »
They even knew I wanted two spoons of sugar!
This September word broke of a letter to Turing from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association. It asked why the price of a dose of its HIV drug Daraprim had increased by 5,500% from $13.50 … Read More »
Saw Grandma tonight and have to say I was underwhelmed. As vehicle for uncovering the high principles, low cunning and wrinkled foibles of septuagenarian feminist and hippie, academic and poet, lesbian and life-loving misanthrope, a picaresque day in the life … Read More »
I’ve known a couple of guys beat up their women. Probably more; they’re just the ones I’m sure about. Never went in for it myself, though I once returned with reciprocal force the single slap an ex gave me. But … Read More »
Well, was he? Maggie comes fleet foot, face full of black soot Talkin’ that the heat put, plants in the bed but The phone’s tapped anyway, Maggie says that many say They must bust in early May, orders from the … Read More »
Listening to the news from Paris these past few days I, like so many Britons, think of climate change as a terrible possibility which may or may not materialise: an appalling possibility we learn to live with, like the threat … Read More »
Sunset Song. The title’s a giveaway. This isn’t a story as we usually expect on our screens; more a lyric poem, Hardy transferred from Wessex to rural Scotland, losing along the way not only those bizarre but convenient coincidences but … Read More »