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The Qatar Masters

My late father, a keen club golfer of modest talent but much philosophising, used to say that golf was the only sport in the world where you were obliged through the handicap system to explain to your opponent how bad you are before the game began. He often compared golf to tennis a sport my mother [...]

January 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Alice in Pantoland/ Dome Studio Brighton

Alice in Wonderland is the production of Brighton’s Alternative Adult Pantomime founded by the late Brian Ralfe in 2002 who passed away in March of this year. It’s best described as gay burlesque. It’s a trip through Pantoland with most of the well known characters – [...]

January 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Lost for Words /Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn made his name with a series of novels, five in all,  featuring Patrick Melrose who was raped by his father. These are rather searing though extremely well written and in parts amusing. One literary friend of mine was reduced to tears by them. They generally had clever ambiguous [...]

January 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Artist Residence

The Artist Residence started as a cool boutique hotel in Brighton and now in Pimlico. I first came across it when one of my favourite restaurants in Brighton,64 Degrees, launched its London restaurant. Sadly though it’s first in Brighton was and is a roaring success, serving innovative food [...]

January 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Like the Premier League the top of the sere a is tight with Napoli leading, Juve second, Fiorentina third and Inter fourth. After a couple of defeats to Lazio and Milan, Fiorentina put their season on track with a solid win over Torino last Sunday morning ( 2-0). We have strengthened the squad with [...]

January 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fill the Void

Israel does not have the film industry you might expect. One of the most unified countries in the world you might have thought it would produce films glorifying its past achievements but Exodus was made by Ottto Preminger and Raid on Entebbe by Irvin Kirschner. Famously at the premier of Exodus, a [...]

January 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Jason Dufner won his first tourney since the 2013 USA PGA in the Career Builder at La Quinta. Over in Abu Dhabi Ricky Fowler held off the challenge of Thomas Pieters to win. Steve Palmer in the Racing Post is in a rich vein of winning tickles. In his column he was boasting – and  why not ? [...]

January 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Seagulls swoop

Brighton made it two wins in a row and, with 2 winnable home games up next against Brentford and Bolton, have every chance of consolidating their play-off position. Brighton won 2-1 but it was not a great game. Huddersfield, managed by Jurgen Klopp’s number two at Dortmund David Wagner, [...]

January 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

The decline of the High Street

Figures released by the British Retail Consortium show that the number of high street shoppers in December 2015 was 2.2% down and there was a comparable decline in November. The greatest threat is the internet, £1 out of £5 was spent on line and shopping there increased by 15%. Moving from the [...]

January 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

George Weidenfeld

An aunt of mine who went to Forest Mere Health Hydro some 50 years ago met George Weidenfked there. She even was invited to his famous parties. It was an early introduction to me of one of the most magnetic and charismatic of post war publishers who died this week. On the Rust we like to dispel [...]

January 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

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