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NEWS AT A GLANCE #5

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Of arshins, poods, and workplace happiness. A whole new week’s worth of the news where you aren’t. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Also filed in NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged accents, Alan Titchmarsh, Armenia, army, BTS, children, Christmas, doctors, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, employment, health, Italians, measurements, men, Nelson Evening Mail, pens, politics, Queen Mob's Tea House, Richard Dawkins, Robert Browning, Russians, satire, Shakespeare, Sri Lanka, the Irish, the Orient Express, the Scots, theatre, train-travel, vending machines, wolves, work | Comments (0)

‘5 Living Presidents’? ASH Smyth demands a recount

Saturday, December 1, 2018

A list of all the living presidents, as at 5:57pm, December 1st, 2018 – for reasons that, I think, should be self-evident. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Also filed in correspondence | Tagged Americans, politics, presidents, Queen Mob's Tea House | Comments (0)

Portrait of a ‘lady’ – Constance Markievicz, by Sarah Purser

Friday, November 30, 2018

Tonight, the Irish journalist Mary Kenny has a play on at the Irish Cultural Centre. Entitled Dearest Old Darling, it’s based on letters sent between the Dublin feminist, socialist, communist, Sinn Fein MP (elect, but never sitting) Constance Markievicz – née Gore-Booth – and her sister Eva. My great-great-great-aunt, Sarah Purser, portraitist, landscape artist, and […]

Also filed in correspondence | Tagged Académie Julian, air travel, An Túr Gloine, aristocracy, bathing, Brendan Behan, burglary, Communism, Constance Markievicz, Count Casimir Markievicz, Douglas Hyde, Dublin, Elizabeth Coxhead, Eva Gore-Booth, exploration, feminism, France, Georgina Gore-Booth, grandmothers, Guinness, Huguenots, Ireland, Jack Yeats, James Joyce, John Butler Yeats, John O'Grady, Kathleen Kearney, Lady Gregory, landlords, letters, Lissadell, Mary Kenny, Maud Gonne, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, National Gallery of Ireland, Oliver Gogarty, painting, politics, portraits, religion, Roger Casement, Rome, Royal Dublin Society, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Sarah Purser, Sinn Fein, Sir Henry Gore-Booth, Sligo, socialism, stained glass, the Arctic, the British, the Irish Cultural Centre, theatre, Yeats | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE #4

Thursday, November 29, 2018

No alternative facts to see here, people! — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Also filed in NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged anatomy, army, asbestos, Barbara Cartland, bathrooms, books, children, dairy, dancing, death, dreams, England, French, George VI, incarceration, insanity, Kaiser Wilhelm, lions, meteorology, music, Nelson Evening Mail, Norfolk Showground, Queen Mob's Tea House, Royal Norfolk Show, rugby, Russians, Saigon, satire, Spinoza, St Leonard, Tacques Tati, the Blitz, the internet, trombone, Tula Province, vodka | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE #3

Thursday, November 22, 2018

A little bit more idiocy from around the global village. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Also filed in NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged baseball, beauty, birds, books, Caucasians, Central Park, China, Communism, death, Fernando Po, fire, grandmothers, Joseph Conrad, knives, MAGA, manufacturing, men, MILFs, Nelson Evening Mail, New Zealand, parenthood, petroleum, politics, PornHub, potatoes, Queen Mob's Tea House, Roxy Jacenko, satire, saxophones, science, teenagers, the internet, the ocean, trivia, University of Iowa, widows, women, Yiddish | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE #2

Thursday, November 15, 2018

The Spanish Inquisition, and other matters unexpectedly arising. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Also filed in NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged Angola, anthems, Bosnia, Brazil, cricket, Croatia, De Selby, death, Denmark, Ecuador, film, Finland, Fox News, France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, housing, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Laos, libraries, money, Mongolia, Nelson Evening Mail, Nepal, New Zealand, November, peace, Portugal, Queen Mob's Tea House, rainbows, religion, roosters, satire, Senegal, sex, sexting, Spain, Spike Lee, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the Forth Bridge, the Marseillaise, the Victorians, Tonbridge School, train-travel, Trinidad and Tobago, trousers, UK, Venezuela, writing, Yorkshire | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE #1

Thursday, November 8, 2018

A lad named Rogers, and other true-ish stories. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Also filed in NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged Alcoholics Anonymous, animals, assassins, babies, Beethoven, books, Caractacus, China, cricket, crime, Dhingra, Epping, Evelyn Waugh, fireworks, geography, health, heroes, horses, music, Nelson Evening Mail, news, Plutarch, pumpkins, Queen Mob's Tea House, race, Rain Men, Regulus, sailors, satire, shit, Sweden, taxes, the Bible, the Congo, theatre, Tom McIlwaine, travel, TV | Comments (0)

All fact up

Monday, November 5, 2018

Trailer for the ‘new’ and ‘improved’, all-singing-no-dancing, NEWS AT A GLANCE – coming soon to a Queen Mob’s Tea House near you! — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Also filed in NEWS AT A GLANCE | Tagged air travel, America, anthems, Austria, children, death, Donald Trump, Dutch, Hinduism, Johannesburg, marriage, Nelson Evening Mail, New Zealand, Queen Mob's Tea House, satire, singing, sleep, translation | Comments (0)

Great Man history

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

On Andrew Roberts’ Churchill: Walking with Destiny. — For The Oldie

Also filed in review | Tagged Andrew Roberts, biography, Churchill, history, The Oldie, war | Comments (0)

Did The English Patient send me to Afghanistan?

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Two nights from now, by way of (ahem) a birthday present, I will be attending a live-orchestra screening of The English Patient at the Albert Hall. I had invited an old friend, a raven-haired young lady (named in Debrett’s) of impossibly romantic tendency, who first exposed me to the film in, I’d say, about 1998 […]

Also filed in correspondence | Tagged Academy Awards, Afghanistan, Ahmed Hassanein, air travel, American University in Cairo, anatomy, Anthony Minghella, Arabic, army, Banana Republic, bedouin, Benny Goodman, Booker Prize, books, bookshops, Brighton, Bruce Chatwin, Byron, Canada, Charing Cross Road, Christopher Hitchens, clothing, Debrett's, deserts, Dorset, Egypt, Egyptology, exploration, film, French Foreign Legion, Gabriel Yared, Geoff Dyer, Geographical, Geographical Journal, Herodotus, Hungarian, Hungary, JM Coetzee, John Ball, John Hare, Joseph Conrad, Justin Marozzi, Kensington Gore, Kristen Scott Thomas, László Almásy, London, Long Range Desert Group, Lorenz Hart, love, Michael Ondaatje, mountains, music, novels, Orientalism, Oscar Wilde, Oxford, Picador, plums, Ralph Bagnold, Ralph Fiennes, Ranulph Fiennes, Richard Bermann, Robert Twigger, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Geographical Society, Saul Kelly, Sinai, SOE, song, South Africa, the Himalayas, the Nile, The Oldie, the Sahara, the Western Desert, war, WG Sebald, William Golding, wind, women, WW2, YouTube, Zerzura | Comments (0)

Category Archives: Journalism

NEWS AT A GLANCE #5

‘5 Living Presidents’? ASH Smyth demands a recount

Portrait of a ‘lady’ – Constance Markievicz, by Sarah Purser

NEWS AT A GLANCE #4

NEWS AT A GLANCE #3

NEWS AT A GLANCE #2

NEWS AT A GLANCE #1

All fact up

Great Man history

Did The English Patient send me to Afghanistan?

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