In an ongoing effort to be, if not down with the kids, then at least on the same chapter as them, I watched a couple of episodes of The Traitors last week. That I was able to confine myself to just two hours tells you what I thought of it. It was not so much […]
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The 1970’s version of Death on the Nile is one of my favourite comfort films. There is something infectious about the good time Peter Ustinov and David Niven are so obviously having while Angela Lansbury is never less than joyous as she chews the scenery and much of the cast in her portrayal of Salome Otterbourne, the
The internet has not, let us be honest, been an unalloyed blessing. Being able to communicate with almost any individual on the planet is marvellous. Being the target of a Twitter storm is not. Being able to buy almost anything at the click of a button is a boon, but many things are available which
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I have a friend. This might be hard for those of you who read my articles to believe, but there you go. People are odd. To spare his blushes, let us call him “Robert”. Robert is, like me, at that stage where others refer to him as middle-aged. He prefers “Late Youth” and expends considerable
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