Well done, Croatia
So shoot me, I’d like to say a big “Svaka ?ast!” to the Croatian team who, in case nobody else noticed, won the match last night. I stress the point,…
The nuisance of music in public – and how to stop it!
Spare a thought for 75-year old David Johnson, a man with a leg ulcer who was so annoyed by the pop music inflicted on him and others in the waiting…
A Mischievous Muse & Maritime Rites
To the Australian High Commission for the launch of Anthony Meredith & Paul Harris’s biography of my late friend, composition tutor and mentor Malcolm Williamson, A Mischievous Muse. From what…
Thank you, Mobile Cycle Service!
www.mobilecycleservice.co.uk Picture it – two miles from work on the Friday morning before a bank holiday, and the back axle on my bike snapped. On the 50-minute trek from Wandsworth…
RIP Dejere Kebede-Tulu
Surely one of the saddest stories to hit the news: an inquest has recorded an open verdict on the death of the brilliant Ethiopian athlete Dejere Kebede-Tulu. He fled to…
Cheek by Jowell
The Tessa Jowell story gets curiouser and curiouser: “Tony Blair said she had not been “in breach” of the ministers’ code of conduct as her husband did not tell her…