I don’t usually go for ultra-realism in art but these acrylic paintings by the young Romanian-American artist Cristina Penescu ( ) really do capture that certain thing about wolves. Maybe I am prejudiced but they come to me like…
I have a recurrence of the epic viral infection that my doctor warned me would reoccur on and off for years – that was over ten years ago so epic is the word for this annoying condition which goes painfully…
It was sunny, crisply chilly and cleanly lit, my home town of Lewes, UK this morning. I stumbled around the house with the annoying symptoms of a virus that has gone to my muscles, wanting my mood to embrace the…
The latest example of David Cameron’s negotiating skills now isolates us from our major economic partners and doesn’t get him the let-out clause he wanted for the City of London. It will please his euro-sceptic back-bench MPs but wobble his coalition with…
I watched a video this morning of this amazing new machine which puts a new spin on water-skying, jet skying and all the other aqua motor sports. It is a grey windy day here in Britain, I have a cold…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…