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Friday, 14 June 2019
Here we go again, another week, another War of the Words. The Jo brand ‘battery acid’ controversy is this week’s …
Continue reading "Jo Brand should be free to make bad jokes"
By Philip Patrick
Friday, 7 June 2019
“This terrible thing of fashion, in assessing composers, especially in Great Britain, is something that worries me terribly”. So remarked …
Continue reading "Lost Classic: Arnold Bax"
Friday, 3 May 2019
Was anything written, said or done to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of American novelist, poet, art critic, …
Continue reading "Ten years since his death, John Updike’s work remains as powerful as ever"
Thursday, 25 April 2019
In John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel – The Day of the Triffids – a spectacular green meteor shower blinds anyone …
Continue reading "If climate change really is a critical issue, we need to think about it critically"
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Now and again, when overcome with the kind of weltschmerz that all too easily afflicts men in the 45 – …
Continue reading "How to cope with the death of Brexit"
Monday, 1 April 2019
About halfway through the March for Leave last Friday, somewhere in Chelsea, an elderly couple of middle-eastern descent, wearing traditional …
Continue reading "What I learned on the March to Leave"
Friday, 29 March 2019
My absolutely least favourite phrase in any language is Regietheater. It even beats out People’s Vote for causing my heart …
Continue reading "Keep Wagner away from Regietheater directors who don’t care about opera"
Thursday, 28 March 2019
I have been finding BBC’s Question Time disorientating lately. The location changes, as do the accents, clothes and haircuts of …
Continue reading "Remainers must stop their generation blame game"
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Aargh! That’s it, I’ve had it. I give up. No, not on Brexit, there’s still the faintest glimmer of a …
Continue reading "Why MPs were right to reject May’s deal"
