So after fifty years resisting the idea, Britain has finally decided to change the way we vote for our government. No longer will it be about electing a governing party, left or right or something in the middle, now our…
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Let the Sun shine in
Tonight sees the opening, in London’s West End, of the revived 1967 musical Hair reminding us all, lest we forgot, that we are still stumbling around looking for our slippers in that early dawn of the Age of Aquarius. I…
Poland has so much to mourn
Scene of the Polish aircrash It must be truly horrific, almost almost of us have had those brief daymares as well as nightmares where we are living through those final moments before a plane crash. So we are all shocked…
The morning after the morning after
Alleluia! as they say when they want to celebrate something wonderful. Alleluia! I haven’t got a hangover – Alleluia! Oh yes, I didn’t tell you did I. I went to a party on Saturday night and had rather a lot…
The White Cliffs of Sussex
All over the World people have heard about those White Cliffs of Dover – they have become a symbol for England itself: the little nation standing bravely alone against the threat of foreign invasion. Those cliffs are in the neighbouring…
Is Britain waking up to the seriousness of this General Election?
Gordon Brown launching his election campaign with his adoring supporters. So who knows, maybe the British General Election is going to give us a big surprize. David Cameron chose to launch his campaign all on his own to a selected…
In Britain we know a winner when we see one
There was something special about that football match last night when a little Argentinian man called Lionel Messi scored four brilliant goals for his team Barcelona against the English side Arsenal. It didn’t matter if you were Spanish, Argentinian or…
A Day at the Races
Fin Vin De Leu ridden by Peter Toole – my first bet of the day. They came, er, somewhere between the front and the back. As the big race to the British General Election is announced today, I am still…
Easter Chicks turn helmets into bonnets
I live in Lewes in East Sussex where we do things differently. No one reminds me more about my home town’s delightful eccentricity than the new owner of the shop that used to be Crocodile Rock just across the road…
Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories and El Greco’s Crucifixion and a game of croquet – the essence of Good Friday
On Good Friday I always think about the deeply moving music composed by the Spanish Renaissance composer Tomas Luis Victoria (1548-1611) and remember the time when I used to sing either his Requiem Mass or his Tenebrae Responsories at Easter…