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 it is a fictional account but that one of the characters is called Christopher Isherwood, who is an author who has written a book with the same name as one
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 matter that seemed pressing at the time. He’s a long standing client but not one that I’d really spoken to about anything other than business before. But it was the
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.