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The Art of Money

You might be forgiven for thinking that the title of this post relates to the $646m sales achieved so far in the auction of the Peggy and David Rockefeller collection but it does not. It relates to a fascinating programme on the art world presented on radio 4 by the excellent John Wilson, son of [...]

May 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

More Sussex sport

One of the fears initially that Brighton HAFC might get relegated was a tough run-in featuring Manchester United, Manchester City – whom they play tonight and Liverpool away. However it was apparent that unless there was total meltdown the Seagulls would be safe long before then. We no longer [...]

May 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

Present Laughter /Chichester Festival Theatre

Directing a lesser-known Noel Coward play sets a challenge: do you make it a period piece or do you find some way to make it more contemporary? Director Sean Foley took the latter route and it did not really work. Perhaps he had at the front of his mind the success of James Corden in A Servant of [...]

May 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Birmingham 3 Fulham 1

Over the 50 years I have supported Fulham the one thing I could rely on is that Fulham would let you down: 2 cup finals, 1983 – when we missed out on promotion at the final game at Derby – whom we now face in the play-offs and now, when a win at Birmingham would have been sufficient we [...]

May 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

Yet more Brighton sport

Saturday I returned to Hove for the third day against Middlesex and went to the greyhound stadium in the evening. The day was memorable more for the people I met then the sport I watched. Cricket is very much a social game. Although I packed the morning papers, I had little expectation of reading [...]

May 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

A surfeit of Brighton sport

Yesterday I went first to Hove Cricket Ground and then the Amex where Brighton secured their status in the top flight. County cricket has rather slipped under the sporting radar with atrocious weather preventing any result then a draw. The big stars are in India for the  IPL. I hear the players [...]

May 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

The sale of Wembley

An awful lot of tosh has been written about the possibility sale of Wembley to Shahid Khan. You would have thought  we were losing  a national art treasure. Prejudice has got in the way of facts. The reality is that the FA is the only national football body that owns its own stadium and this only [...]

May 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

Events dear boy events

When Harold Macmillan made this memorable observation on how polices and strategies are undermined by events it seemed better suited to the macro world of politics than the macro world of Robert Tickler but it was the best description of my day yesterday. It began with the mild gastric upset I [...]

May 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard : The Market/Western Road Brighton

I am a huge fan of Spanish cuisine. Tapas has generated the concept of shared platters adopted by many cuisines. I like the idea of not taking alcohol on it’s own but accompanied by small helpings of food. Yesterday I returned to Market. The first time I enjoyed the food but not the experience as [...]

May 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

Visiting the past misty eyed

I often have a very early morning swim in the local gym. Invariably in the pool are 3 old jossers one of whom Michael I’m on chatty terms normally conversing about football. The other two,  John and Ian are also football fans supporting Burnley and Arsenal respectively. Yesterday for the first [...]

April 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

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