Wingless Words
Let us praise poets who are not afraid of Therefore – or of other wingless words that do what they…
Loo role
I love metaphor, and now metaphor has led me to a toilet near Goodge Street, in that thankless patch of…
Wild life
Rift Valley ‘We’re on the frontline,’ I said. ‘And however many guns we had, it wouldn’t be enough against the…
Sculpture trail
William Turnbull died last year. And if his name is not as familiar as those of his friends Giacometti and…
Blue-sky dreaming
We don’t have an extreme climate, says Richard Mabey in Turned Out Nice Again (Profile, £8.99). We don’t have tsunamis,…
Fight to the death
Not Dead Yet: Labor’s Post-Left Future By Mark Latham Black Inc Books, $19.95, pp 99 ISBN 9781863955973 This book, by…
Lights fantastic
A room filled with glowing fog; shadowy figures among glittering LEDs and warm ‘breathing’ columns of light. Welcome to the…
All is not lost
Phyllida Law has a delightfully natural style, a gift for anecdote and the knack of seeing the funny side of…
Lights fantastic
A room filled with glowing fog; shadowy figures among glittering LEDs and warm ‘breathing’ columns of light. Welcome to the…
All is not lost
Phyllida Law has a delightfully natural style, a gift for anecdote and the knack of seeing the funny side of…
Marching out of Balthazar
Balthazar is a golden cave in Covent Garden, in the old Theatre (Luvvie) Museum, home to dead pantomime horses and…
The man behind Eric and Ernie
It takes a special sort of talent to turn a good act into a great one, and without John Ammonds,…
The man behind Eric and Ernie
It takes a special sort of talent to turn a good act into a great one, and without John Ammonds,…
Filming the unfilmable
Whenever the possibility of a film version of a difficult or complex book is mooted, speculation mounts about how it…
Not the who but the how
Twenty-five years ago I went to St James’s Palace to ask the Prince of Wales if he would open the…
Filming the unfilmable
Whenever the possibility of a film version of a difficult or complex book is mooted, speculation mounts about how it…
Not the who but the how
Twenty-five years ago I went to St James’s Palace to ask the Prince of Wales if he would open the…
The cult horror of The Room
The Room is an awful film. Plot lines are picked up and forgotten in seconds, stock footage is repeated continuously,…
Wild life
Rift Valley I am training for a half-marathon on the slopes of Mount Kenya in June and I must prepare…
The cult horror of The Room
The Room is an awful film. Plot lines are picked up and forgotten in seconds, stock footage is repeated continuously,…
Mixed blessings
Last week, Sergei Polunin’s powerful entrance in Marguerite and Armand was saluted with a wave of electrically charged silence: not…
Sound and vision
Quite what it was that was so spellbinding about a quartet of middle-aged German blokes in skintight bodysuits standing at…
The Scarf
I saw Christine Lagarde outside The Wellcome Trust with a trolley case. She was wearing my scarf — the scarf…
The Scarf
I saw Christine Lagarde outside The Wellcome Trust with a trolley case. She was wearing my scarf — the scarf…
Sound and vision
Quite what it was that was so spellbinding about a quartet of middle-aged German blokes in skintight bodysuits standing at…
