Greece is the Word I have a modest proposal that might simultaneously celebrate the life of Christopher Hitchens, strengthen Britain’s low stock in Europe and allow us to help a dear friend in terrib...
I believe every great country should have a great capital. Naturally, a metropolis will absorb plenty of resentment and bitterness from the provinces, that’s as true of London as it is of Paris and R...
For some weeks now my jacket pockets have been bulging in an unsightly manner as I have gone about the world with a BlackBerry Bold 9900, two HTC Android handsets, the “Rhyme” and the “Sensation XL ...
Apple‘s loss last week was enormous. I wrote all that I felt I could in the blog farewell on this website to a man I was lucky enough to know a little and admire a great deal. Most are probably...
I last saw Steve Jobs a year and half ago. I spent an hour alone in his company while he showed me the latest piece of magical hardware to have come from the company he had founded in 1976, the yet t...
Don’t Bragg It was a great surprise to receive a letter some months ago from Lord Bragg (he of unimpeachable Melvynous South Banksy fame) asking if I might consider taking over from him as President ...
100 Greatest Gadgets On Bank Holiday Monday Channel 4 are screening one of those “100 top” programmes they like to make and this year I had the pleasure of being allowed to choose my 100 favourite ga...
Welcome to Norwich: A Fine City An open letter to all who despise sport and most especially football My love of all kinds of sport surprises nobody more than myself. I do not think there has ever bee...
@stephenfry Good evening.
Exclusively in the FT Weekend: Stephen Fry interviews Lady Gaga. The UK writer, actor and broadcaster and the US popstar met at a hotel in London and discussed fame, Madonna, Oscar Wilde and that mea...
Hey, I can be quite rock n roll too -
My bonnet has been trimmed – Judy Garland eat your heart out. Or not.
Oh dear – my Easter bonnet. It needs a little work. BRB
After a gap of twenty years I have rediscovered my love of stage musicals. I owe a lot to the form. It was the almost unbelievably fortunate circumstance of being asked while still in my 20s to updat...
Molière outside the Comédie Française
The Café Procope – quite a list of customers …
Lovers attach a padlock to the Pont des Arts – then throw the key into the Seine <3
And meet here…
The academicians have sat in solemn conclave. They come thru here:
Look what’s afoot in the Philippines! The BBC are so sweetly innocent…
Just awaiting flight to Paris. This ashtray outside airport reminds of … Russian doll? Moomin? SOMETHING
Some pictures to certain Monday up -
New Year fireworks in the bay:
Some of you may have spotted that I recently tweeted the existence of a new service called Pushnote. In the interest of transparency, openness and the general calming down of doubting Thomases and cy...
And here are the donkeys…
They make the most wonderful accommodations from aloe vera and other twigs and leaves:
The Kalashnikovs a faint worry…
Smiley….
Me listening to their story-telling …
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