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The Crooked Maid by Dan Vyleta

Dan Vyleta has acquired quite a reputation, which he has done much to foster by comparing his latest novel to Dostoevsky and Dickens. I was initially excited by the thought of a novel set in Vienna in 1948. I have never visited Vienna but I feel I know it well. Weaned on Graham Greene’s The [...]

April 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Masters

The azaleas are out again for the most traditional and beautiful of all the Majors. It’s an open field that favours a power game and risk-taker. Players with a fine short game, like Mike Weir and Zach Johnson, have donned the green jacket but it’s usually a power-hitter. I would have [...]

April 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

The sacking of Chris Hughton

After the sacking of Chris Hughton there is not one black manager in all four divisions. Another Chris, Chris Powell the popular manager of Charlton, was sacked a few months ago. Robin Scott-Elliot argued in yesterday’s Independent that there should be an affirmative discrimination [...]

April 9, 2014 // 1 Comment

The Grand National Men

I can claim acquaintanceship with two of the key personalities of this year’s Grand National. The first is Lord Daresbury, effectively Lord Grand National. He was at the same college as me at Cambridge although I did not know him well.  He was Peter Greenall then, the heir of the brewery [...]

April 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

For a natural pessimist I travelled up to Aston Villa on the Chiltern Line in hope. We did play well against Everton and, if we could replicate our form of the first hour, we would surely overcome an inconsistent Villa side who had beaten Chelsea at home and next home game lost to Stoke. They were [...]

April 6, 2014 // 4 Comments

A Tale of Two Solicitors

Yesterday I had to visit the offices of two solicitors I engage. The first was the firm of Bodgers in Holborn, very much a firm of and for the landed aristocracy. I was therefore surprised to see, amongst the Country Life and The Lady, the Jewish Chronicle in the various  journals and newspapers [...]

April 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Great Business Rate Scandal

A new cafe has opened up in Marylebone near my residence in  Westminster. It’s owned by an Oriental couple and you can sense on visiting how hard they are trying to make their business successful.  It’s situated next to Pret but many prefer a  family type concern to a  formulaic [...]

April 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Jeune et Jolie

Francois Ozon is amongst the most celebrated of French directors and he is on form with Jeune et Jolie. The film, set over four seasons, depicts Isobelle (Marine  Vatch ),  a 17 year old who loses her  virgintiy in the summer on holiday, becomes a prostitute in autumn, is revealed as such in [...]

April 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: K Hotel West and spa

The K hotel is located in that rather anonymous quarter Estate agents called Olympia Village between Shepherds Bish and Olympia.  Its not an obvious  place for a cool boutique hotel but for that K Hotel impressed. I  went there for a day of spa and lunch treating my godson’s mother. It got [...]

April 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Yves Saint Laurent

The French Cinema has, over the past few years, produced some interesting biopics of their celebrated achievers: Piaf, Chanel and now Yves Saint Laurent. Although these are warts et tous they reflect a national pride which we do not  often see in British cinema Yves Saint Laurent was played by [...]

April 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

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