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A la Colthard :Tozi (again)

We restaurant critics rarely review the same place twice twice, let alone within 2 months.  At my first visit to Tozi I thought it sensational but my host then had known it well and ordered. This time I was the guest of an old friend and it was his first time. He did the ordering,  but the maitre [...]

March 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Dire England

One of the features of the national team as long as I can remember is the failure to reproduce the performance  of club form internationally. Liverpool under Rodgers have been a revelation this season – a free scoring side that ‘s easy on the eye. Yet Sterling, Sturridge and Henderson [...]

March 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

The mo-vile phone

When a social historian seeks to identify a sign of our times, I reckon it will be the mobile phone. Walking in a London thoroughfare, it seems one person in three is on the phone and, unlike New York, we do not walk in actual lanes, so as often as not you have to weave out of the way. Few train [...]

March 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

10 films about music

Music films, like sports films, can suffer as an actor is not a musician. Against that you can rely on a good score. Here are 10 of my favourites: 1. Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner Rock music is not noted for either its humour or self-criticism but this film achieves both, an achingly funny [...]

March 3, 2014 // 3 Comments

A la Colthard

We restaurant reviewers like nothing more than home cooking. Sounds blasé but true. Last Friday Ollie decided to cook the meal. He is not an imaginative cook but prepares simple dishes well, so he went to the wet fish section of Waitrose and bought 2 crabs and some salmon. The salmon he cooked in [...]

March 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

It’s a case of back to square one, or the bottom 18, as this performance was palpably worse than the last home one – when Rene Meulensteen was in charge – and we narrowly lost to Liverpool. Bizarrely, Felix Magath dropped Lewis Holtby, who appeared to be his lieutenant on the [...]

March 2, 2014 // 2 Comments

West Indian cricket

Watching England contrive lo lose a ODI they dominated last night, I tuned into an enjoyable conversation between Sir Ian Botham and Courtly Ambrose. They discussed Antiguan cricket, which once produced Viv Richards, Richie Richardson, Andy Roberts and Ambrose. Those were the days when the Windies [...]

March 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina File

I thought you all might be interested in a recent development at Fiorentina.  The system of support  is a different model  to yours. There is a network of supporters clubs normally characterised by location, for example there is A Viola Club of London, but it could be a place of work. There is [...]

February 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Boccaccio 70

In my list of films set in Rome, I included Boccaccio 70 and I revisited it yesterday. It is in fact a quartet of films, three of which are by Italy’s foremost directors Vittorio de Sica, Lucchino Visconti and Federico Fellini and featuring two international stars, Anita Ekberg and Sophia [...]

February 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

The blame culture

In yesterday’s Standard I was struck by one article in the normal tedious parade of celebrity features on the usual suspects: Petronella Ecclestone, Naomi Campbell, dressed as a cowboy in boob tube, and of course Simon Cowell. A tribunal hearing into Chelmsford hospital was reported after the [...]

February 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

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