I don't know what it is about me at the moment, but whenever I hear about death or demise of someone linked to my life, I become overwhelmed by irrational nostalgia and a sense loss. Maybe it is a case of getting closer to the grave that make me more emotional about such things?
So when, yesterday, I learnt of the death of BBC Radio's classified football results reporter, James Alexander Gordon, I felt like another part of my youth had died, ...
A few weeks ago when I was in Turkey, my friend Kate and I got chatting to a lady from North London and when the talk of all these child abuse cases inevitably came up in the conversation, she claimed to be close to a legal team who were in the process of building up a case against child of God, Cliff Richard.
In fact she didn’t say that, she said it was 73 year old God bothering pop star who was currently out of the country, so neither ...
I have to say that The Inbetweeners, introduced to me by my teenage sons a few years back, was the funniest sitcom I have witnessed since the 2001 series of ‘The Office’ which is also set to become a movie sometime soon.
Because the series was about sixth form college, it’s shelf life was not long, but the much anticipated 2011 movie didn’t disappoint; a hilarious boys holiday in Malia that demonstrated and joyfully reminded us blokes ...
Before the barbaric Lebanon incursion and the mass migration and illegal settlement of Jews from places such as Russia in the 1990’s, Israel, a state created as a homeland (in 1947) for persecuted Jews, received almost total Western support in their battles with Arabs as they sought to maintain their new homeland.
However, a UK poll last week suggested that just 15% of British people sympathise with Israeli aggression and the treatment of ...
Well, the week has so far has gone without too much alarm but with plenty of incident where things could easily have descended into mayhem or possible violence aimed at me, courtesy of my Friend Kate.
More of that later.
A good part of the week has seen me drifting around on my own, which I think represents a bit of a gamble as, when I left England, I wasn't entirely sure whether I would embrace my own company or hate it. It's not that ...
