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Middle England/ Jonathan Coe

Middle England by Jonathan Coe might end up as the definitive Brexit novel as it’s set from 2012 to the present day. The author does not disguise his remain sympathies but he brings out well the various motives and rationale for voting either way and the destruction it wrought. I first came [...]

May 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Le Colombier

Le Colombier restaurant in Dovehouse Street, just behind the Royal Marsden Hospital, is the sort of place where I would meet my Great Aunt Julie. You know the sort: bowl of pot pourri in the hallway; favourite playwright Noel Coward; favourite music Gilbert and Sullivan; voted leave to stem the [...]

May 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

Medical and internet matters

Yesterday I received the good news that my kidney stone has passed. Over my five and sixty years I get a stone roughly every 10 years and it’s intensely painful. A calcified stone forms in the ureter, blocks the bladder which sets off a acute pain. At my last appointment last week, the [...]

May 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

Great Lives/Radio 4

One of my favourite radio programmes is Great Lives, well presented by ex-Tory politician Mathew Parris. The format is one person advocates a great life and an expert supplies further detail. Like most of programmes on the BBC these days it has been railroaded and become a feminist platform. [...]

May 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Vincent Kompany – hurrah

I was so delighted when the 30 yard strike from Vincent Kompany proved to be the winner for his Manchester City against Leicester City and has given them one firm hand on the Premier trophy. I’m not a closet supporter fan of City though I have the fondest memories of the Joe Mercer/Malcolm [...]

May 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sussex sports

Our dear friends at Crystal Palace, by beating Cardiff, kept the Seagulls up as we appeared to be sleepwalking into relegation. Sussex Sharks lost yesterday by 116 runs to 4th place Gloucestershire at the Saffrons Ground, Eastbourne. I went to the match. I like the outer grounds of Sussex, [...]

May 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Kelly’s Heroes

Kelly’s Heroes (1970) supports my theory that a war film tells you as much about the time it was made as the time it covers. In 1970 America was involved in Vietnam and the film is less about gung-ho heroism than a buffoon general (Don Rickles), a long-haired hippie soldier (Donald Sutherland) [...]

May 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Hampshire beat Sussex by 9 runs

I do not suppose there will be more than a paragraph in the sporting media on Hampshire’s victory in the Royal London Cup but it was a thrilling contest. For the second match in succession Sussex took the game to a final over but unlike Essex there was no victory. Hampshire set an imposing total [...]

May 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Blandford Comptoir

The Blandford Comptoir is in Blandford Street Marylebone and is very much the offshoot of 28-50 in nearby Marylebone lane. This is not surprising as its owner worked there. Like 28-50 it has a strange configuration of a bar with counter food (hence Comptoir) and tables to the back and rear. This [...]

May 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Was it ever thus?

I am sure I have quoted Jock Stein’s observation after his Celtic disposed of Leeds in the old European Cup that English football overrates itself. Over the years of watching English domestic and international football I have felt this. We are good – especially the media – on [...]

May 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

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