16:11
Insults
Jonathan Miller is the master of the raking broadside insult. On the opera crowd at Covent Garden: "Harrod's Food Halls, yield up your dead." Or on Paul Johnson: "an explosion in a pubic hair factory."
19:32
Happiness
If you ask most people what they want from life, most will say to be happy. Probe further, ask what they mean by ‘happy’, and you will get s...
19:30
Christmas cards
Christmas cards; what has gone wrong? In days of yore they were income for charities and a means of acknowledging, once a year, a family or ...
17:35
Dorothy Parker
When asked how a friend in London had broken her leg, Dorothy Parker answered, 'Probably sliding down a barrister.'
17:08
Real life horror
I'm not one for horror - books or movies. I have an overactive imagination and don't need to dwell on that space. Unfortunately, fac...
16:59
Hong Kong taxi
Hong Kong has a super-efficient and very cheap taxi service. The drivers are very Cantonese and rarely speak more than basic English. It was...
09:30
Berlin: falling walls
On the 9th November 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. It is also the anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1938. On that same day, every year, a con...
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