Succinct.

This is worth a look – positive tests by MSOA. I use ArcGIS and ESRI too much at work to go into more detail, but their maps are state of the art.

Though it has been pointed out that completely unrelated cancer deaths, to give an example, could rise and lead to excess deaths because of prioritising Covid above other conditions.

People are now being told to seek tests if they have symptoms, in April they were only being tested if their condition was bad enough to call emergency services. There are other theories about the virus weakening […]

Excellent. I remember enjoying this a lot at the time.

Two things stick in my mind. First, it may be the last time I saw Richard bareheaded. Second, towards the end he’s browsing a market in California and a […]

Thanks Colpin. The

As a side topic (not that this isn’t already 99% side topic) a few months ago there was a surprisingly lively ‘worst Richard Thompson song’ discussion on the RT Fan Facebook page. I stuck with the pretty […]

You scamp.

KJ? JK of course.

Ah, but Jedward have said that KJ Rowling’s new book is ‘perfect to burn’. One has to be so careful picking heroes these days

Actually, they said it is ‘perfect to burn next to a romantic fire’, which suggests […]

I happen to like Alexander Armstrong on TV but I saw a very true remark on Twitter the other week – not only do his CDs turn up in charity shops all the time, but they’re almost always still sealed.

If we were playing rock star Top Trumps with points for songwriting, instrumental virtuosity, range of subject, variety of style, longevity and so on (not all of which everyone will consider a virtue) I think […]

That’s what I came here to say. Sometimes I wonder if I might know too much RT trivia. Then I put on Amnesia or Bright lights and decide not.

What I might refer to as ‘The Flaming Lips phenomenon’.

I would have thought his ears were the obviously vulnerable area.

I saw that production of The Provoked Wife. Les Dennis was pretty much just a chair carrier in that one, presumably having a meatier role in the concurrent production of Venice Preserved. Hound and Caroline […]

This is from the infamous ‘divorce tour’. Richard had met another woman but Linda, who had only just had their third child, insisted on doing the shows. She had followed Richard into Islam, learned Arabic, lived […]

I read a piece years ago by a journalist, I forget which, who met John McEnroe after his peak playing days but before he started commentating for the BBC.

The journalist was heading into the gents when he met […]

At the moment the handful of reviews on Amazon are universally 1* due to the quality of the discs, which I can’t say fills me with confidence.