The Rite of Springing
By happy accident, I stumbled across a wonderful blog entry by Brendan McCarthy on the ritual of ballet class (Thoughts during a ballet class). This expresses eloquently precisely why I…
Excellent schmexcellent, Mr Brown
“Non-learners ‘may lose benefits'” is one of the most bizarre, frightening, Orwellian headlines I’ve read in a long time. How did the concept of ‘learning’, or indeed ‘benefits’ become so…
Germaine Greer on Shilpa Shetty
Catch it before it disappears off-line (as things tend to do when the subject is contentious). Germaine Greer on Shilpa Shetty in the Guardian. Classic stuff, including gems like this:…
The Condors
Briefly: To the Sadler’s Wells last night to see The Condors, a Japanese all-male dance troupe with the reputation of being the Japanese Monty Python of dance. For once, a…
Happy New Year 2007
A very happy new year 2007. If you missed the fireworks, have a look at a few pictures of the display viewed from Canary Wharf last night in the New…
Happy Christmas 2006
Happy Christmas. That’s the end of the 2006 Advent Calendar. I’m delighted to say that my aim in starting it last year has been achieved – if you search on…