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

Alas, Poor Cumbers

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

Filmucopia Part IV: Old Love

17 October 2014 London My London Film Festival marathon closes with two very different New York-based love stories: the wonderful … More

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

Filmucopia Part II: Super Saturday

11 October 2014 London In Part Two of my London Film Festival marathon, I review Mike Leigh’s magnificent Mr Turner, the … More

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

I Dreamed of Kate

25 September 2014 London Legendary singer Kate Bush made the Mother of All Comebacks with her live show Before the … More

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

My Big Fat Gay Buddhist Passover

15 April 2014 London A night at an unconventional Passover Seder dinner involving Egyptian Buddhists, chicken soup and more matzo … More

The Long Walk to the Altar

30 March 2014 London As same-sex marriage becomes legal in the United Kingdom, is it time for LGBT people to stop thinking … More