Brian Cox I have got an unpleasant virus infection which means that I shouldn’t stray very far from home at the moment so last night I watched television here in England and caught the first episode in a new BBC…
Fukushima Chernobyl Where next?
The Sussex seaside town of Seaford may not be the most beautiful place in England but, yesterday, in the rain, it had a seedy charm and a sense of the sea’s power. I suspect i was not the only one…
On a calm and sunny spring-like morning here in my small town garden in Lewes, Southern England, the beauty and tranquillity of my early spring flowers are a thought-provoking reminder of the very different situation on the other side of…
If any of you have been following me this week, you will know that I have used the excuse of being ill with a sinus infection to clear out my study which had degenerated into a chaos of papers and…
I was reading a magazine interview with the chief executive of Britain’s main commercial channel this morning. Mr Adam Crozier, late of the Post Office and the Football Association, was talking about his ITV multichannel stations: “It’s about clearer positioning,…
Everyone has, by now, seen the Oscar-winning movie The King’s Speech and, since then, a lot of them ask me about it knowing that I developed a stammer after my brain haemorrhage of just over two years ago. Whatever I…
He is a sad middle-aged man, inclined to fat, with more money than brains, who is attracted to tarty women, is a bit of a golf-bore, wouldn’t say no to a few drinks, has friends in murky places and who…
I have been limping around the house all weekend with my annoyingly injured knee, well Saturday night’s misbehaviour took me out of myself for a while. My frustration with my knee means that everything, all those anticipated rites of Spring, seems…
Well! I didn’t think I would have got this far but I have emptied some of my bookshelves in the first episode in the great Spring clearance. This is the tip of the proverbial iceberg though because there are other bookshelves on…