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We went to see Cleansed at the Almeida Theatre. For the first time I was at a theatre that took active measures to ensure the audience couldn t take pictures inside the auditorium: before entering, we had to show our phones so that stickers could be put over the lenses. Of course it would be the [ ]
I watched the DVD of the 1983 TV series Number 10. This ran for 7 episodes, Each episode was centred on a particular Prime Minister who lived at 10 Downing Street at some time in the previous 200 years. The episodes were not sequenced chronologically, which is as well since 5 of the PMs chosen [ ]
We tried to observe the solar eclipse. We did not try very hard. We both had vague memories of trying to watch the one in 1999. That was more of a national occasion, with some people travelling to Devon for improved viewing chances. All I did was go up to the first storey of our [ ]
I watched Brick (2025) on Netflix. I thought it would be something in the same vein as Exit 8 or Backrooms, about ordinary people suddenly cast in to a strange new world-within-the-world. That s not exactly how it works out. We start with a shifting pattern of blocks fusing together, rather like the black door we [ ]
We went to Wales for a few days. Driving out of London on Saturday at midday involved a long delay around Wandsworth Roundabout, where lots of angry motorists banged their horns and cut ahead of queues for no significant benefit. In Llandeilo I saw that the old Barclays Bank building was now up for auction [ ]
This month I read the new novel by Bill Broady. Previously I had read his first and second novels, and his early short stories, all around the time they were published. When I found out there was a new novel I also soon found out that there was a third one, a large ambitious historical [ ]
I went to Whitechapel Gallery to see one of the screenings of the John Smith Film Programme. The screening is in the Zilka Auditorium, beyond some of the other exhibits as part of the Backyard Biennial series. Record is simply a quick joke about possessing some old footage of Prince Philip, taken without his attention, [ ]
I stopped looking at X/Twitter regularly some time ago. In the last few weeks I have had a dip in again to see how the commentary on the murder of Ann Widdecombe is evolving. I notice no one seems to be objecting the tone of familiarity which some newspapers have adopted by referring to her [ ]
Yesterday I went to Birmingham to do a little walking tour I had thought about for a while. When I ve been going up to see exhibitions at Ikon Gallery I travel by coach. The stages of the journey in and out of Digbeth Coach Station go round the great flyovers connected to the M6 (the [ ]
Today completed the process that began nearly a month ago. After a lot of obscurity it finally became clear that the old boy would be stepping out this morning, there would be the transition at the big palace, and then the new induction would start around midday. As usual there was a lot of dead [ ]