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Churchill: the day Britain said no

Last night I watched a documentary on the General Election of 1945 which Labour won by a landslide. Over the years I have studied this election in some detail. The normal assembly of anti-Churchill academics, Professors Charmley and Overy gathered as well as a bleached blonde Geordie Trot activist [...]

May 26, 2015 // 2 Comments

The Brighton Tigers

I have written before that Brighton and Sussex sporting-wise punch beyond their weight. Brighton and Hove have a well supported football team in a wonderful stadium, the oldest professional cricket club, Sussex CCC founded in 1839, a dog track and race course.  In the county we have Goodwood, [...]

May 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Don Carlos/ Brighton Dome Concert

Yesterday husband Ollie and I made a late decision to come down to Brighton. Ollie is keen on classical music, being secretary of the local  madrigal society called the Pimlico Performers. Sounds likes a group of swingers rather than devotees of baroque music, but no such luck!!! The Brighton [...]

May 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Montgomery’s reputation

A. recent book on the Ardennes campaign, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, by the distinguished historian Antony Beevor  (Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s last gamble) is critical of Field Marshal Montgomery. Monty in charge of the  Northern Army hoped that everyone would be back home by [...]

May 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

A timely intervention

For some reason I know not the fines imposed on the bank for rigging the exchange rate triggered a memory of a conversation with my father over thirty years ago. It’s a curiosity – if that is the right word – that neither the victims of the scandal are compensated nor the [...]

May 22, 2015 // 1 Comment

The special relationship : is it?

A radio programme I always enjoy is Great Lives presented by Matthew Parris. The format is someone advocates a person as a great life and an expert adds to the background. This week the great  life was the US war time ambassador Gil Winant. He is less remembered than his predecessor Joe Kennedy [...]

May 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Graham Greene and the cinema

I cannot think of any writer who has had a more profound effect on the cinema than Graham Greene. Many of his stories were filmed, he wrote screenplays, he was a film critic of The Spectator and he even appeared as an insurance broker in Truffaut’s  Day for Night. He is perhaps best known [...]

May 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Salt Room

The Salt Room, Brighton’s latest high end restaurant situated in the Hilton Metropole did not get off to a good start for me. I called to book, received a confirmatory email and then a second which I was asked to confirm. Enough already. Then Emily called in the morning for yet another [...]

May 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

McIlroy on song

There are few sights better in sport let alone golf than to watch Rory at the top of his game. On Saturday he shot a 61 – much as I enjoyed and appreciated the round I had a lingering fear that the record of one of my golfing heroes Al “Mr 59 ” Geiberger would be equalled. There [...]

May 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

KP free

Rather like The Independent not carrying stories on the Royals I was prepared to veto Kevin Pietersen as I was so bored by it all. Yet underpinning it is an issue which should be aired, namely a media campaign to pick a player. This has existed in football for years. As recently as the last World [...]

May 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

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