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NEWS AT A GLANCE #8

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Of queens, Slovenes, and the birthplace of James Douglas Morrison. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Bach, bulls, construction, crime, Europeans, family, George Herbert, Gilgamesh, Italy, Jim Morrison, money, Nelson Evening Mail, obscenity, poets, Queen Mob's Tea House, royalty, running, satire, Sheba, Slovenians, Special Branch, the English, vomit, wood, writing, Zbigniew Herbert | 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

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Angola, anthems, Bosnia, Brazil, cricket, Croatia, De Selby, death, 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)

On ranting

Thursday, February 1, 2018

If there’s one thing I just can’t abide, it’s ranters. Not the C17th religious nonconformists. Folk who can’t shut up about things. You know the type. The workplace philosophers; the shouters at the TV; people in whose eyes you see the glint of socialist dictatorship. They come in every walk of life. Stupid boxers (*tautology […]

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Alex Ferguson, Bangalore, Basil Fawlty, boxers, British Rail, Charlie Sheen, comedians, customer services, dictatorship, Donald Trump, fathers, Geoffrey Boycott, Hamlet, humour, Jeremy Clarkson, John McEnroe, Mel Gibson, memoirs, men, Michael Richards, Naomi Campbell, philosophy, phones, pubs, ranting, religion, Samuel Johnson, socialism, The Daily Mail, the Labour Party, The Oldie, TV, Will Self | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, November 13, 2017

. Throughout Denmark there is not one person over 10 years of age who cannot read or write. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 4 1906 . There is a whale whose voice is too low to communicate with other whales. Seatbelts do not statistically improve your chances of surviving a car accident. London’s Mithraic temple is […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged accidents, advertising, Aeneas, anatomy, archaeology, Aung San Suu Kyi, Basque, Bell's, Bloomberg, cars, Christmas, cliché, criticism, Daniel O'Donnell, Dante, drink, education, Euclid, Facebook, finance, humans, John Lewis, law, limbo, London, maths, Missouri, Mithras, music, Myanmar, Nelson Evening Mail, Nicholas Lezard, Nobel Peace Prize, nomenclature, philosophy, Poetry, politics, religion, sex, singing, the West, traditions, whales, whisky, women | Comments (0)

Good show(?)! – Mozart Undone

Monday, February 24, 2014

His circus-like extravaganzas have sliced and diced The Beatles, played fast and loose with Bob Dylan, and spawned successful imitations across the theatre scene in his native Denmark. Now the gleefully wilful director-cum-ringmaster Nikolaj Cederholm brings his trademark ‘theatre concert’ to London’s Barbican, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s temporary residence in the British […]

Filed in feature, interview, Journalism | Also tagged Adrian Edmondson, Beethoven, Betty Nansen Teatret, Blackadder, Bob Dylan, Chekhov, Darwin, Dolly Parton, English, German, insanity, Italian, Jens Hellemann, JMW Turner, Lady Gaga, Lloyd Webber, Mandela, Mozart, Mumford & Sons, music, Neill Cardinal Furio, Nikolaj Cederholm, Old Testament, Paganini, Peter Hellemann, Red Hot Chili Peppers, rock, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, theatre, war | Comments (0)

23.10.12

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

0930 Retweet Homeric ‘Rain of blood’ detail (courtesy unknown female) 1100 Rewrite Rupert Brooke one-liner, ref. Danish political TV series 1130 Post arrives, incl. new Johns Hopkins Iliad translation 1315 Stanford’s: 1 x scratch-off gold world map 1400 To barracks for Afghanistan mobilisation briefing

Filed in Non-fictions | Also tagged Afghanistan, books, diary, Homer, Iliad, Johns Hopkins, maps, micro-non-fiction, Poetry, Rupert Brooke, TV, Twitter | Comments (0)

The soldier (after Brooke)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

If I should die, think only this of me: I never finished watching all of Borgen…

Filed in Poetry | Also tagged army, Poetry, Rupert Brooke, TV | Comments (0)

Of Danes and Darfur

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Review of Susanne Bier’s In A Better World. — For theartsdesk

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Africa, film, Susanne Bier, theartsdesk | Comments (0)

Shadowland

Monday, April 2, 2007

A Q&A with Danish photojournalist Jan Grarup. — For Stop Smiling

Filed in interview, Journalism | Also tagged books, Darfur, Jan Grarup, Journalism, Kashmir, Palestine, photography, Romania, Romanies, Rwanda, Slovakia, Stop Smiling | Comments (0)