The Disunited Kingdom, June 2016
Here I shall be posting some of the better articles ...
Strange mistakes in European history & geography 4/4: The European Union
Photo: Wikimedia commons Previous sections of this essay: 1/4: The ...
Strange mistakes in European history & geography 3/4: Human rights
Other sections of this essay: 1/4: The Map of Europe ...
Strange mistakes in European history & geography 2/4: ‘The United States of Europe’
Other sections of this essay: 1/4: The Map of Europe ...
Strange mistakes in European history and geography 1/4: The map of Europe
Later sections of this essay: 2/4: ‘The United States of ...
Memories that will Kinder linger for ever …
[with apologies for the appalling title pun … :)] Last ...
71st anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, 2015
On this 71st anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem (17-26 ...
Failure to see the full picture
Surely the underlying problem with some (many? most?) politicians, like ...
Beethoven’s double resurrected from the dead
Exactly forty years ago, in my last year at the ...
The Matterhorn and the Taugwalders: reflections on the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn
When my mother was dying of cancer in 1965, the ...
An idyllic return to Harrison’s Rocks
On June 30, Chris Henshall, the master in charge of ...
On Style and Eloquence
Having touched on the question of style in my last ...
Interview about Stanley Kubrick from Stanley and Us, 1998
An interesting, often amusing programme, by Mauro di Flaviano featuring many interviews of those who worked with Stanley Kubrick. Below is an extract in which I tell the story of a big clash in the dubbing theatre during the post-production of The Shining between Kubrick and the Dubbing Editor, Wyn Rider.