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Becky Fury on famed street artist Stik, Bohemian squats and her Fringe show
I’ve posted some blogs recently about Becky Fury and her BRITISH-ISH Edinburgh Fringe show which is about her being (in alphabetical order) British-English-Indian-Irish. Yesterday, Edinburgh suffered...
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Tribute to Tony Green aka Sir Gideon Vein… by the ‘other’ Anthony Green
I guess I met the late and decidedly unique performer Tony Green aka Sir Gideon Vein last century. Although maybe he was more of a figure from the 19th century. I first blogged about his death, around...
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Moviemaking? You need perseveration and Jason Cook…
When I did my college course in London – radio, TV, journalism, advertising – it had three linked mini sub-subjects – psychology, sociology and literature. One of the things the psychology course...
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Lockdown London looks like a scene in a 1950s post-Apocalyptic SciFi movie
The UK is in lockdown because of the COVID pandemic but, yesterday, my eternally-un-named friend and I (in our bubble) had to go into Central London. Here are some photos of the current West End,...
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This is Britishness, as imagined by AI…
I asked Gencraft AI to show me the epitome of British life and it came up with this: I then asked it to show me epitome of London life… Finally, I asked it for an image of (politician) Michael Gove as...
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This live Porno stage show will try to do justice to the REAL Trainspotting...
Irvine Welsh‘s Trainspotting was published exactly 30 years ago. It was longlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize, but was apparently rejected for the shortlist after “offending the sensibilities of two...
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An East End child, my mum and Dean Martin – Colin Copperfield (2nd of 3)
In yesterday’s blog, actor, dancer, singer and songwriter Colin Copperfield talked about his time performing in London’s West End in Jesus Christ Superstar. He started in showbiz aged 14 and, as well...
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A little bit of North Korea in London and glowing balloons in my garage…
Eager eaters await the opening of an ‘all-you-can-eat’ Korean BBQ restaurant in New Malden… I am interested in North Korea and in the content of dreams. Last night, I went to New Malden, Surrey, on the...
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David Mills on the difference between US and UK comedy clubs… and more…
Every week, British-based US-born comedian David Mills posts online an extraordinary 5-point bulletin called Quality Time, a smörgåsbord of societal snippets, curated curious comment and interesting...
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He has a simultaneous one-year run in London’s West End AND on Broadway
Katsura Sunshine after two days in quarantine Back in September 2017, I blogged about Katsura Sunshine, the unique Canadian purveyor of the traditional Japanese storytelling genre Rakugo. He flew into...
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A sixth book and multiple film(s) from the indefatigable Jason Cook’s mind…
You need grit and determination – and nowadays, ideally, the potential for sequels – to get movies made. The indefatigable Jason Cook turns up occasionally in this blog. His new novel Euphoria –...
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Three of the reasons why I don’t trust the police in London (or elsewhere)…
I once had a long chat with the head of a prestige City of London solicitors who acted as the private solicitors for the then British Prime Minister. This guy told me he would never put a serving...
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I was brought up in Aberdeen and Campbeltown in 1950s Scotland…
I was born on the west coast of Scotland – in Campbeltown, Argyll, near the end of the Kintyre peninsula, AKA – as Paul McCartney would later eulogise it – the Mull of Kintyre. Scots singer Andy...
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COVID Lockdown London: lunchtime in a massive East End shopping centre…
The station at Stratford in East London is always busy because it’s an interchange between two London Underground lines, the Overground, the Docklands Light Railway, national Great Eastern trains and...
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Lockdown London looks like a scene in a 1950s post-Apocalyptic SciFi movie
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The oddity of no sex north of London
This morning my chum, writer and songstress Ariane Sherine, Tweeted about the oddity of London postcodes. There are SW (south west) postcodes, SE (south east), postcodes, NW (north west) ones but no...
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The story of my baffling and slightly surreal iPad disappearance mystery
The cyber centre of the baffling iPad disappearance mystery Right… So find a comfy chair, have a warm cup of tea or coffee by your side and sit back to take this in. It is a tangled tale, but possibly...
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The Loneliness of the British Transport Policeman on a London tube train…
I posted this on my Facebook page last week but the incident is staying in my mind because it was just so surreal. In the middle of the afternoon, I got on a Metropolitan Line train on the London...
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Three racial insights into the UK at Christmas 2019/New Year 2019/20
I think the first time it happened I was on a Victoria Line train on the London Underground. I was feeling quite mellow and relaxed, standing by the exit doors of the train when he talked to me. He...
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Lynn Ruth Miller on comedy in Singapore, London and Edinburgh
In immediately preceding blogs, she wrote about performing comedy in Cambodia, then in Bangkok, Saigon, Hanoi and Jakarta. Now London-based American Lynn Ruth Miller continues in Part 3 of a 4-part...
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