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Art. Film. Books. Politics. Sex. Baking. And whatever else I can think of.

Hooray for Dead White Males

Please join me in a new blog venture, Hooray for Dead White Males, an occasional series in which I attempt…

Rita Reviewed

In which I return to my old stomping ground of Wellington, and review Rita, the city’s hottest new restaurant.  One…

Nikau, restaurants, Rita, Wellington

Joining the Club

15 August 2016 London My review of A Question of Upbringing, the first Anthony Powell’s twelve-volume novel series A Dance…

A Dance to the Music of Time, A Question of Upbringing, Anthony Powell, England, Eton, Kate Camp, Proust, Radio New Zealand, Simon Russell Beale, social class

Letter to a Brexiteer

Dear Lizzie It was certainly a shock, reading on Facebook that you’d voted for Brexit. A mutual friend told me…

Brexit, David Cameron, EU Referendum, Nigel Farage, Remain

Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves

14 June 2016 London Barack Obama has called the Orlando shooting a “hate crime” against the LGBTQ community. For LGBTQ…

homophobia, Orlando

Women Take Back the Write

19 May 2016 London Is feminism dead in the UK? This month’s Something Rhymed Literary Salon series re-opens a much-needed debate about…

Arifa Akbar, Caitlin Moran, Everyday Sexism, feminism, Germaine Greer, Great Britain, homophobia, Karen Maitland, Michele Roberts, Sarah leFanu, Something Rhymed, Virginia Woolf

Alas, Poor Cumbers

15 August 2015 London Thespian totty du jour Benedict Cumberbatch is the latest high-profile actor to play Hamlet in a…

Barbican, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet, Shakespeare

It Is So Ordered

27 June 2015 Moncontour, Poitou-Charentes, France There aren’t many mornings where I wake up crying. This morning was one of them. On…

Gay marriage, Supreme Court

Not Far From the Middling Crowd

16 May 2015 London The BBC and Thomas Vinterberg’s prettified adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd fails…

Broadchurch, Carey Mulligan, David Nicholls, Far From the Madding Crowd, John Schlesinger, Matthias Schoenaerts, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Vinterberg

Diff’rent Strokes

8 March 2015 London  Fifty Shades of Grey continues a well-worn and lucrative literary tradition of bad writing about kinky…

Dakota Johnson, E L James, Fifty Shades of Grey, Jamie Dornan, Sam Taylor-Wood

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