Spurs fan here. Feeling quite delighted this morning, not caring that it was a rotten game. And feeling grateful to Ange, but also that he shouldn’t be in charge next season. They put in way too many poor […]

I remember looking forward to Stingray when I was four years-old, but on the first episode I was scared by those scaley creatures and didn’t watch it again.

This is the point that I give up on Starmer. There has to be a sensible debate around immigration, with an acknowledgement that it produces some tensions, and measures to manage it in line with what the country […]

My wife and I, and other family members, received the winter fuel payment when we didn’t need it. I can’t see why we should have received £600 a year from the taxpayer when we could pay the energy bill without […]

As pointed out here, economic predictions involve lots of variables …. and they’re often related to human behaviour, which is often quite irrational.

The Mrs and I watched the final episode yesterday and thought it was excellent. I reckon the single shot per episode worked very well in maintaining the intensity, and they covered an awful lot abut the […]

Try ‘Zero Day’. An entertaining political thriller that they kept to six episodes, and all the better for it.

I have an old schoolfriend who now lives in the States and is very disappointed to be losing Sounds , especially all the programmes from Radio 4. On a broader level, I think it has worked like the BBC World […]

I did music O level at school, and failed miserably. But one of the pieces we studied was Ravel’s ‘Sonatine’, which I came back to in my twenties and discovered a taste for his piano music. I have a double CD of […]

My parents read to me and my sister when we were very young, and as we got a little older my dad – who was the regular reader of the two – would sometimes describe the books he was reading. On top of that I had […]

Some of us remember Dance with Wolves won in 1991 – now widely seen as a travesty that it came out on top of Good Fellas.

The Mrs and I have recently had Saturday evenings on the sofa watching Anora and Emilia Perez – both entertaining but not exactly knocked out by either – and Conclave, which we enjoyed by far the most, even though […]

One of the best movie actors ever.

Any of those coopers who make and repair the barrels for Scotch whisky.

Giant Steps by John Coltrane.

The worst part of this is that there are tens of millions of cretins who will take what he says as gospel, even when there’s not a shred of evidence to support it. There could be a point when there balance of […]

There was a need for more diplomatic language than they’ve used in the past – just the reality of having to deal with Trump and his cronies – but I think Mandelson and Lammy have both gone over the top. I wonder […]

Interesting that this was originally regarded as a disappointment because of the sound quality. As a 15-year-old I loved it, have played it a lot over the years, and was not aware of the various remasterings. Now […]

Yes. If I’m ever asked on Desert Island Discs (as if) that would be one of my choices.

There’s a certain piece of music that only us cool people will recognise as being the indicator of cool. We never tell anybody else what it is. You can only claim to be cool if you know what it is. If you hear it […]