William Cobbett was one of the most influential men of his day, more or less despite of his personality. He is sadly forgotten today – but he is still entertaining.
Spoiler Alert – this review reveals the plot of the book Why Did Isherwood Write Goodbye to Berlin? In the author’s introduction we learn that
The day that the Hamas fighters broke out was a Saturday, and unusually I had a call with a client in my office on some
After three decades of devotion to Handel’s oratorio Saul—sparked by a chance library discovery—I finally made the pilgrimage to Glyndebourne. Despite eye-watering ticket prices, this performance proved worth every penny.
Should we take a long-term view of our altruistic behaviour? It sounds logical that we should. But really a whole book on the subject makes me doubt it.
I wrote this at the time but didn’t publish it. I have just rediscovered it. You don’t get historic events along very often, and even