Tag Romeo and Juliet

Some true romance for Valentine’s Day

Le  baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville  by Robert Doisneau (1950) Well, don’t blame me for being soppy, it’s St Valentine’s Day and I’d much rather celebrate it with some great art than all those lurid reds and pinks, heart-shaped balloons…

Wherefore art though Mark Knopfler?

I was going to write something irritating about Romeo and Juliet, you remember those annoying teenagers who just couldn’t keep things together, but I couldn’t bring myself to say anything cynical about them on the day that I’m writing a…