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 more rarely do you get to watch them roll out in realtime on the television while being able to discuss them with just about anyone else on the planet.
When I was a teenager, the ticketing arrangement at the local cinema with that you bought a ticket at the box office and this gave you admittance to the cinema and any of the three screens available for as long as you wished. It was quite normal to stay and watch more than one film.
I woke up to the news the South Korea’s population has fallen for the first time in its history. Wars and famines have been just as prevalent in the country’s history as anywhere else, but it turns out that demographics is the thing that really counts. An ageing population who choose to avoid having too
I wrote this post shortly after the Capitol Coup, and then forgot about it. Since then Parler has been revived and the people I thought the leak would harm are now running America. You wait ages for an event of historic significance to come along then you get two come along at once. The attempted