With the poetic world in uproar yesterday ( all 27 of them I suspect – see yesterday’s blog if you are interested), I turned away from the resigning Professor of Poetry at Oxford University with a shrug and a “silly…
Now if I were to write the word sex here, woops, I have just done it, sorry, you would all read on, probably. On the other hand if I wrote words like Professor, Oxford University, election and, worst of all,…
I have good news for the British people today. There are signs of real hope that our politics is about to be transformed. First of all, for all of you who are lucky enough to be living away from Britain…
I spent some interesting time in Richmond, the State capital of Virginia in the very hot Summer of 1995. It was hot for me anyway being a mere Brit on a foreign trip. I was working on a television programme…
It has been a time of mixed feelings. I have had the results of my brain scan and my neurologist says that the results are “very reassuring.” I take this as medical speak for “fantastic” or, as people say these…
When President Barack Obama met the recently elected Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, he said to the press that he believed that Mr. Netanyahu was “going to rise to the occasion. Let’s hope so. The Israeli prime minister was in…
It is that time of year, in my garden at least, when Spring is waving goodbye and Summer is still unpacking its luggage. In their terracotta pots, the tomatoes are shooting up, my strawberries are in bloom and my raspberries…
I wonder what it is like to be under house arrest. Before I was ill, I used to think it was a cushy number. You could stay in all day, watching television, reading books, playing the mandolin and other relaxing…
I haven’t been out much recently. You might have wanted to tell me that I should get out more – people get funny when they are indoors a lot but those that know me better think I was a bit…
We are all loving our politicians here in Britain at the moment. Politics has been really boring in the newspapers with all that financial stuff and, let’s be honest, we just don’t understand it but that has all been changed…