What the Dickens?
Dickensian was supposed to be the Christmas TV event for the chattering classes. After all, Charles Dickens practically invented …
Dickensian was supposed to be the Christmas TV event for the chattering classes. After all, Charles Dickens practically invented …
A hiccup in lunching arrangements yesterday resulted in some unexpected bonus time, so after a planned visit to the British …
There’s an old saying that “Water and fire are good servants but bad masters”. Well there’s not much fire in The …
One of the (many) benefits (and there are many) of not having to go to work every day is the …
Mrs Pankhurst? I think not. Suffragette is a well-structured drama with high production values and good, solid performances from a …
Pootling down the M40, sky blue, sun shining, trees becoming bizarrely less autumnal the further north you go and looking …
Ganesha is the elephant-headed god of the Hindu pantheon, a popular figure in Indian art and the subject of Homage …
“Private schools organisation chief tells critics: stop indulging in toffism” – not exactly “Freddie Starr ate my hamster”, but, hey, …
Dear Miss Austen would, I venture to suggest, have been amused, nay, scandalised by the decision of The Ashmolean Museum …
The link between a group of visiting Japanese drummers performing a centuries old ritual in the forecourt of Oxford’s Ashmolean …