I really liked Sad Professor off Up.

Well… thanks for such generous responses. I am interested in the theme that formal education posed/poses a threat to the active reader. That was not my experience when at school – I just started reading other […]

Thanks, Bamber, and others for such thoughtful replies – keep ’em coming.

d’Urbervilles – french grammar – I would say ‘of course’ but that would be pretentious.

I am aware that this is a possibly ironic comment but is it not worrying that a negative thread ( though I think the ‘irrational’ adjective was designed to avoid it) has led to so many finding the energy to bang […]

Yeah he screamed about it for quite a while. No other views possible.

He might call time because he is a shadow of the player he was and he doesn’t need the money.

I have been permanently scarred by 1981. Headingly was such a standout that it obscured that Australia also blew the next test chasing 150 odd.

What a match and now so many questions pre Sydney… 1. Does Rohit Sharma play instead of Shubman Gill? Has he played his last test? 2. Is Virat about to play his last test? 3. Has Mitchell March played his […]

You don’t like his harmonica playing? I can I just check that I read that correctly? Miles’ trumpet playing? Aretha’s singing?

Yes – exactly – save my loved ones while I can. Come on, man. Will you have a look out the window.

But Trump doesn’t need ammunition. He thinks a news report on his hair is ammunition.

I completely hauled you over the coals. I’ll own it.

Not a good look? What would be a “good look?” Israel are led by a war criminal. Israel were also attacked by terrorists.

As I think, virtually everybody here would. I would lie for my daughter.

It might be disgraceful. But can anyone tell any more? The hench man won’t even face a trial for Jan 6. Will spend no time in jail for a rape for which he was convicted. Pays no taxes. Disgraceful? Is there such […]

I think its reasonable for Biden to have decided that all bets were off, all promises meaningless, all truths no better than a lie. You really wouldn’t opt to let your son go free from being harassed by this mob?

At this point, Retro, I am well beyond caring about excuses. It really is every bastard for himself at this point. All we have now is headlines. In half an hour there’ll be another one. Maybe in two minutes.

On each Harrison album there are a couple of nice songs and lots of pretty duff ones that are sometimes wrapped in an enticing production and delivery. But it strikes me that he only ever had a couple of songs on […]