Football Matters I’ve been told recently that to be an Italian and not to like football is almost a crime. You’re being watched with suspicion. The person who enlightened me on this is, ob...
As for where I’m writing this – I’m sitting in this souvenir shop in Southampton Row, just across the corner from Russell Square and the British Museum. I discovered it back in 2004,...
Since I’ve arrived in England, I almost never failed to visit London in spring. I visited the capital in early April in 2004, then in late March in 2005, I skipped 2006 for personal reasons, but...
It was the year 2000 when I said to one person: ‘Do you realise that all years will now start with “2”? All people who’d gone before this year have got both years starting with...
This is the scene I saw at my bus stop recently. ………………………………………Early Morning at the Bus Stop. Landscape with ...
… at The Hare and Hounds today at 3pm. No doubt I’ll write about it, but at the moment you can read about the meeting here and here. The exterior of the pub can be seen on the left (many t...
I know this will probably sound totally surreal – but I wasn’t interested in soul music until I went on a placement at the BBC GMR back in February 2005. Yes, I heard names like Aretha Fra...
The text that you’re about to read was written in late December 2005. It was literally inspired by a TV news report about Prince Charles considering to take on the name George when he eventually...
As I am still new to the world of creating and sharing the media online, I am very puzzled at one thing about YouTube. I know some videos are disabled for embedding, with which I have got no issue. Th...
I remembered listening to a short talk by Slavoj Žižek on Channel 4 last year, in which he discussed (very briefly) Charlie Chaplin’s film, The Great Dictator. Although the image of a dictator w...