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THE YBAs

Yesterday in the art class we studied the Young British Artists headed up by Damien Hirst. We started though with Gilbert and George. They are similar to Hirst in their brilliant self promotion. They wear the same suits, always lived in the same house in Spitalfields, dine in the same restaurant [...]

March 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

Covert Cornwall

I cannot be totally sure but I believe I heard the folk group A Fisherman’s Friend sing their sea shanties at the little quayside of Fowey South Cornwall some 6 years ago. I say I cannot be sure as, although I videoed the performance, it does not entirely marry with those of the folk group based [...]

March 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

The sporting weekend

It was another mini disaster in the golf with the nearest to a result being Lucas Glover finishing just outside the each way belt. Justin Harding, a good South African golfer but hardly a global name, won the Qatar Masters. Over in the States Francesco Molinari won the Arnie Palmer Invitational in [...]

March 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Leicester 3 Fulham 1

The Khan regime has sacked 6 managers – Martin Jol, Rene Meulensteen, Felix Magath, Kit Symons, Slavisa Jokatovic and Claudio Ranieri. Of these six, the last five were appointed by them and only Jokatovic can be judged a success. After each dismissal one hopes for a bounce. Scott Parker is [...]

March 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / The River Cafe

The River Cafe, once the in-house cafeteria of architect Lord Rogers and owned by his wife Ruth, has been going strong since its launch in 1987 which is kinda surprising given its high prices and inconvenient location in that no-man’s -land between Hammersmith and Fulham Football Club. I went [...]

March 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

Churchill/ Walking with Destiny

For various reasons I’m not a great reader of biography. Most are so long that they take up a month’s reading, they tend to detail day by day the life of the subject rather than provide a full picture of him/her and I do not remember much of the content. However I greatly enjoyed Andrew [...]

March 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Reflections on the Champions league

The great Jock Stein once remarked, after his Celtic side had deposited Leeds out of the European Cup in the semi-final, that those outside England do not share the high domestic assessment of English football clubs. I thought of this remark last week when Manchester United were beaten at home by [...]

March 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Events, dear boy, events

Harold MacMillan’s observation nicely caught my day yesterday. I was returning from an appointment yesterday by car and a motorist had abandoned his car blocking the roadway in the opposite direction. Behind the empty car was a dustcart blocking my entrance gates and behind that vehicle a queue [...]

March 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Dirk Bogarde

We critics are no different from the general audience in our likes and dislikes – worse if anything. I never really liked two of the most talented female Hollywood stars Meryl Streep and Katherine Hepburn, the first for being so pleased with herself and the second lacking the warmth and [...]

March 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Chelsea 2

Fulham fans were much heartened by this performance. For long periods we took the game to Chelsea though I always felt- as happened – that if we did score Chelsea would speedily do the same. We conceded our normal 2 goals, making it 69 in total. However there were encouraging performances [...]

March 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

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