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