Between Man and Wolf
It was like looking into the mirror when I came across this splendid image on-line this morning – this must be a long lost relative. I love the microphone and wondered what he was going to say. Was it a…
Wolves go head on in Cai Gau-Qiang’s brilliant artwork
Head On by Cai Gau-Qiang The Chinese artist Cai Gau-Qiang, who now lives in New York, made this extraordinary installation in 2006 for the Deutsche Guggenheim exhibition of his work in Berlin. Head On comprises 99 specially made wolves (there…
Wolves are OK – Day Two
Apart from the fur hood on the guy’s coat, let’s not ask what it is made from, this is a great photograph of man and his original best friend. It’s where dogs come from so we must have made friends…
Even wolves can be cute – believe me
It is nearly Spring but I have no other excuse for publishing these photographs other than just a feeling of the World new born and to show you that even wolves can be exceedingly cute. I defy you to not…
The gay marriage question could finally sink the Church of England – do we care?
I do realize that people should be free to practise their own religion no matter how wackey it is – well maybe drawing the line around human sacrifice and a couple of other things – so I have never gone…
Come along to my poetry reading tonight in Lewes.
I”ll be reading some of my poetry tonight at the Lewes Arms, in Lewes, UK. It would be great to see you if you want to come along. Here’s the link:
Now we’ve seen David Cameron stuff his face with a hotdog, what’ll be his next stomach-turning camera trick?
Well, they asked for it! Look away now if you have a weak stomach. The latest photo opportunity for the World’s press was to see Barrack Obama and David Cameron eating hot dogs at a basket ball match in Ohio.…
Bizet’s Carmen – a work of genius that will never fade
Jonas Kaufmann and Elina Garanca in Carmen There have many great opera performances that I have been lucky to see in my life but, inevitably, many that I’ve missed too. One of them was Bizet’s Carmen with the delectable Latvian mezzo soprano…
Let’s enjoy the photos but let’s not expect too much from the Anglo-American ‘essential relationship’
I hope our prime minister, David Cameron, doesn’t get too over-excited about his trip to the United States today especially as it must feel like all his Christmases have come at once. Not only is the American president putting on…
Reading The Times on my Kindle – enough to make my ancestors splutter over their breakfast.
Once upon a time, as Edwardian plays, British costume dramas and distant collective memories tell us, the morning newspaper, usually The Times (of London) was ironed by the butler and then delivered on a silver platter to the man of…