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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

This 1971 novel by Elizabeth Taylor – her eleventh – short-listed for the Booker Prize [images herein taken from the 2005 US-produced movie version of the same name directed by Dan Ireland with a largely-British cast list headed by Joan Plowright as Mrs Palfrey and Rupert Friend as [...]

October 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Manchester City 3 Brighton 1

Brighton have lost their last six visits to Manchester City so not even John Pargiter would have backed them yesterday. As it happened Roberto de Zerbi set up the team well with asphyxiating man to man marking. Inevitably Erling Haarland scored two first half goals making his tally this term so far [...]

October 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 3 Aston Villa 0

The difference between this season and the previous two relegation ones are wins over our peers. The last relegation season began with a comprehensive defeat at home to Crystal Palace. Although we do not meet them until Boxing Day a much better performance and result are likely. Yesterday’s [...]

October 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Noises Off/Theatre Royal Brighton

The amazing thing about Michael Frayn’s pastiche of the British bedroom farce – Noises Off – is that it was first staged 40 years ago. Even though the genre of such Whitehall farces hardly exists (remember the long running No Sex Please We’re British) this one is still regularly [...]

October 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Nottingham Forest 0

Brighton have yet to record a victory under Roberto de Zerbi and only scored in his first game against Liverpool. It is not critical as we are still in the top half of the table but concerning. Much is made of De Zerbi inheriting a team with good values and foundations but the goal-scoring problem [...]

October 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

One hundred days and counting

A precursor of the Rust was a now-defunct fantasy blog written by a Walter Mitty-type who purported to inject himself into real-life UK and global current events and record what happened from his viewpoint as a supposed key participant in them. One of the author’s recurring “situations” was [...]

October 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Bournemouth 2

Fulham v Bournemouth encounters are normally feisty affairs and this was no exception. Fulham had lost their last two games whilst the Cherries – after a 9-0 defeat at the hands of Liverpool – sacked Scott Parker, previously at Fulham. They were undefeated in their last five  matches [...]

October 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

Boxing in the dock (again)

The debacle of the recent non-fight between Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn – actually a bout cancelled by the British Board of Boxing Control as “against the interests of the sport”, apparently  despite the protests (up to and including threatened legal action) of promoters [...]

October 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

Champions League qualifiers

As often as not, a match on which much hangs can result in a cagey game. Not so Barcelona v Inter Milan last night. Barcelona’s debts are said to have reached 1 billion euros and their  future revenue streams have been compromised. Although on top of La Liga they must qualify for the business [...]

October 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

Rise of the Nazis/The Downfall

I watched my recording of the first part of this series yesterday. It’s a documentary in the modern mould: actors silently depicting the major personages; a young female historian from a diverse background. Heavyweight historian Sir Richard Evans presents it. It begins in 1944 with Adolf Hitler [...]

October 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

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