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A Trivial Post About Ryan Giggs
I am a Manchester City fan so you can aim off for a degree of prejudice in what follows. I also think more about photography than anything else at the moment so you can also aim off for obsession....
View ArticleBounded in a Nutshell
The core of Stefan Zweig’s magnificent story Chess is summarised in the observation, ‘the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity’. This is said of Mirko Czentovic, a...
View ArticleBuy the Most Expensive Camera You Can Afford
This may sound a bit specialised and I know I’m a photo bore, but, bear with me, it’s might be worth it. ’The death of photography: are camera phones destroying an art form?’ runs the headline....
View ArticleLearning to Love the Luvvie
I have been interviewing an unconscionable number of very famous actors lately. You know of Dench and de Niro and there are more to come in the New Year. In the course of doing one phoner with a very...
View ArticleGod the Teapot
Bertrand Russell’s celestial teapot is an object orbiting the sun somewhere between Earth and Mars. It is too small to be detectable so any insistence that the teapot exists cannot be refuted. Russell...
View ArticleNeuroscience and Nigel Farage
Here is a statement of the obvious: problems with mass immigration may be caused by racists (closet or otherwise) but they will, nonetheless, be problems. Also obvious is the fact that racism intrudes...
View ArticleSchrodinger’s Mob Boss
Schrodinger’s cat, you may recall, was neither alive nor dead. It only became one or the other when the box in which it was imprisoned was opened and the experimenter could feel its pulse or whatever....
View ArticleOf all the Corbyns I have known…
I have been getting quite a few YDUB (‘you don’t understand, Bryan’) responses when I tweet my less than enthusiastic feelings about Jeremy Corbyn. YDUBs cause a red mist to descend more effectively...
View ArticleTrump, O’Hara and the Wreck of the Medusa
Writing about the arts, ideas and sciences, as it seems I mainly do, I am used to dealing with clarity of thought and high intellectual and aesthetic ambition. Not that I often find them – and almost...
View ArticleOn England: Home Thoughts from Abroad
Having spent a few days observing England from a distance of about 1000 miles, I realise I am a patriot. I arrive at this conclusion in defiance of all the present evidence – the wreckage of...
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