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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 … More

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 … More

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

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 … More

Gay marriage, Supreme Court

Filmucopia Part III: National Gallery

12 October 2014 London Frederick Wiseman’s wonderful documentary National Gallery pays tribute to and quietly critiques one of the UK’s cultural … More

Frederick Wiseman, London Film Festival, National Gallery

Filmucopia Part I: No Place Like Home

10 October 2014 London It’s London Film Festival time. I review Rolf de Heer’s stirring film Charlie’s Country, and the fun … More

Biophilia, Bjork, Charlie's Country, David Gulipul, London Film Festival, Rolf de Heer

Where The Wild Things Were

12 September 2014 London This month, Allen Hall Theatre, my university’s resident theatre teaching and performance space, celebrates its centenary. … More

Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago

We Don’t Need Another Hero

15 July 2014 London Australian swimming star Ian Thorpe becomes the latest sports celebrity to admit he’s gay. But is this … More

Australia, coming out, homophobia, Ian Thorpe

Gay Pride and Gefiltefish

28 June 2014 London An unconventional Gay Pride weekend in London, involving fried fish balls in Hampstead. It’s Gay Pride … More

Gay Pride, Gefiltefish, London, Passover

Once When We Were In Love

26 June 2014 London In which I see the charming and quietly heartbreaking Once: the Musical and weep like a child for … More

DH Lawrence, Glen Hansard, Nick Mulvey, Once, West End

He Said, She Said

19 June 2014 London The First Stone, Helen Garner’s analysis of a 1992 sexual harassment case at an Australian university, … More

Australia, feminism, Germaine Greer, Helen Garner, sexual harassment, The First Stone

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