Mother Russia’s abused children.
No matter what Vladimir Putin says about those Russian elections, we will never believe him for as long as he tries to silence anyone who dares to speak up against him. Democracy is just not his style. So for as…
David Cameron announces twice as much Olympic glitter…£80 million of it.
Here in Austerity Britain, our Prime Minister, the ever-charismatic David Cameron has announced that he is doubling the £40 million budget for next year’s opening and closing Olympic Games ceremonies. I make that £80 million for a bit of sparkle and…
When Europe sorts itself out where will Britain be placed?
Yes, I know about the Euro crisis, I know that the “leaders” of the Eurozone, Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy can’t quite agree yet on what to do about the currency crisis, I know too that I am…
Sorry folks it’s Christmas so pass the sick bucket!
You don’t need me to remind you that now we are in December, we are well and truly into that nightmare of nightmares, the Christmas Shopping Season when taste, decency and style all disappear until well into January. Something bad…
Thanks to all my readers – all 70,534 of you.
At the end of December, I will have been writing these daily blogs for three years without interruption and, as an unapologetic and obsessive geek, I couldn’t resist looking at some of my vital statistics. After-all, it would show an unforgivable lack of curiosity…
Wolfie’s shameless plug of the week: Foxes! album to be released in January
Foxes! album cover Adam Bell Adam Bell, one of my sons, is a songwriter, guitarist and can generally be described as an indie rock musician, He has, as I have mentioned here before, a band called Foxes! with three other…
Hollywood is…..Cary Grant with a dog in his pocket.
Star quality. This is the great Hollywood star Cary Grant – I don’t know the dog’s name but I do know that this is a truly wonderful photograph – good enough for me to say nothing more.
Ken Russell – underestimated genius – one of film’s greatest.
Ken Russell (1927-2011) When certain great people die, it is tempting for other people to claim that the deceased changed their lives – I resist these claims but in the case of that most charismatic, under-estimated, over-publicised, cruelly-under-funded and brutally…
Clouds – looked at from both sides.
Here are two amazing photographs of cloud formations worth putting up just because they are amazing photographs of cloud formations. Both sides as far as the mood goes. They made me think of a song by Joni Mitchell – an…
Verdi’s Requiem still scares the pants off me.
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) On my self-imposed journey through the history of classical music where I have been listening to music chronologically from the year 1100 taking in most of the notable composers through the ages and reaching over the last…