A belated Christmas tipple
Life is returning to normal. Clinics, pills et al are receding into the distance. There was never anything remotely approaching…
I am not a robot
Much of the magic of Curb Your Enthusiasm comes from the show being plotted but not scripted. The direction of…
I’m holding the fort
I’m currently sitting on top of a brownie point mountain. Caroline has departed for a two-week tennis freebie in Barbados,…
Death, beauty, and the writing of a will
Perhaps there’s a German word – for there’s no English one – for that alloy of liberation with melancholy that…
Does anything not count as ‘far-right’ now?
Oh – and the Collected Works of Shakespeare. I forgot to mention that last week: that among the books on…
My list of banned words
North America’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project has released yet another list of Bad Say. Scientists are to swap…
Letters
Delusion of Sturgeon Sir: Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation speech was the longest and most delusional in living memory (‘After Sturgeon’, 18…
Sir Jim or the Sheikh for Man Utd? Either will be better than the Glazers
‘Greenwashing vs Sportswashing’, as Sky Sports put it, is a curious way to characterise the emerging £6 billion takeover tussle…
Real life
When we put the house on the market, my environmentally conscious neighbours disappeared on a holiday so long I asked…
Three hours of tripe
Standing at the Sky’s Edge is an ode to a monstrous carbuncle. The atrocity in question is a concrete gulag,…
