A virtuoso performance of Gambon, with its accompanying (big) belly laughs, and a display of male animal magnetism ...
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Book Review: The Social World of Early Modern Westminster
Visitors to London often ask: "Where's the centre?" They're surprised to find locals responding: "Umm, which centre do you mean?
Read More »Agnotology: a new word
Agnotology is a term that has been invented to describe "the cultural production of ignorance".
Read More »Two wonderful women
Varying circumstances took me to web resources on two fascinating women
Read More »Time to end the London bomb hysteria
Fifty-two have died, less than a week's road death toll. Where are the demands for traffic safety laws?
Read More »Friday femmes fatales No 16
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.
Read More »Mary cancels out Eve
Mary was supposed, through giving birth to Christ, have cleansed the "sins" of Eve ...
Read More »Space: the case for privatization
In the nearly four decades since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, human space travel has gone nowhere.
Read More »Review: What the Butler Saw
You might call it Kafka meets Oscar Wilde meets Carry on Matron.
Read More »Found poetry
'Some sets of footnotes, as long as they’re not the minimalist Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. style, make fine poetry ... '
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