As a professional drinker and gin correspondent, I do not drive. Heeding the old TV advert of not drinking and driving, I gave up driving. As a favour to other road users it seemed the decent thing to do. Admittedly, learning...
Read MoreUsing the songs of legendary songwriter Joe Hill – who inspired the likes of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg and Joan Baez – Bread & Roses is a new musical from Ian Kershaw that tells the...
Read MoreOnce upon a time I owned an exquisite pair of purple velvet flares. They were the height of fashion and I looked the proverbial canine gonads. But I put on weight – you had to be as skinny as Twiggy to get into those things –...
Read MoreOld age is not for sissies, as Bette Davis famously said, but it was a relatively rare commodity until recently. My grandparents’ generation thought they were lucky to make it into their seventies, but my parents lived longer....
Read MoreGaslight, the classic Victorian thriller, was written in 1938 by Patrick Hamilton. It made him rich. A four-year run on Broadway and two film adaptations saw to that, and it continued to do so for the rest of his life...
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