17:47
Terry Thomas and Picasso
Apparently, and the story is too good not to be true, Terry Thomas once met Picasso. ' I say, old boy,' he said, 'could I have a word in your eye.'
17:45
Darren Shan
Dubai again. One of the authors was Darren Shan. I had never heard of him but apparently he is huge in teenage vampire - and same genre comi...
17:12
Dubai
I was in Dubai last week for the Emirates Literary Festival - the first of many, I hope. What's not to like? Staying in a lovely hotel, ...
15:34
Asking the right question
I was listening to a programme on the radio about Plate Tectonics yesterday. Two things particularly struck me. The first was how new the sc...
09:51
Coding
I’ve never remotely considered myself a techie but I found myself today on a one- day course on coding. The website www.decoded.co (sic) wa...
16:53
Tyrants' children
Kim il Ju, Bashir Assad and Said Gaddafi: they are painted as sinister monsters, taking over the tyranny of their fathers and willingly slau...
00:33
Global warming - should we welcome it?
Global warming is a bad thing. Or is it? Compared to the status quo – which is all we have to compare things with - it would seem to be frau...
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