Monthly Archives: October 2017

A new voice

Posted on October 24, 2017 by

Meeting Elida Almeida was one of the highlights of my trip to Cape Verde earlier this year. You can hear more from her on “Kebrada”, my world music album of the week in the Sunday Times.  

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Notebook

Posted on October 23, 2017 by

I wanted to ask him  if he was writing, Was he finding the time? For years, as a busy physician, I’d struggled to find the time to write. I wanted to tell him that a famous writer, commiserating about this … Continue reading →

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Rain, Sunday morning 

Posted on October 22, 2017 by
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Stripes

Posted on October 20, 2017 by

[I posted this at The Times’ First Edition Facebook page] Andrew Bacevich, an academic with a rare insider’s understanding of the American army (he was a senior officer and lost a son in the Iraq war) has written a good … Continue reading →

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Modern times

Posted on October 20, 2017 by

 Another little gem by Paul Noth,  the man who gave us the best Trump cartoon of 2016.

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Notebook

Posted on October 17, 2017 by

All of the documents through 1938 that survive among Gould’s papers give his surname as “Gold”, but beginning at least as early as June 1939 the family name was almost always printed “Gould” in newspapers, programmes, and other sources… Xenophobia … Continue reading →

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The immortal Thelonious Monk

Posted on October 10, 2017 by

He was born a hundred years ago today. “Evidence” still sounds timeless.  

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On the bench

Posted on October 9, 2017 by

For the last few days I’ve been reading “Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories”, a biography of sorts of one of the most celebrated defence lawyers of the last century.  (He’s still  alive, and turned 102 this year.) One chapter is devoted … Continue reading →

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At the Design Museum 

Posted on October 8, 2017 by

Lots of space, but surprisingly low on content.

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Two singers, two styles

Posted on October 6, 2017 by

Diana Krall at the Albert Hall. Fine music, but something was missing: …In mood and tone this was not that different from the days, 20-odd years ago, when she was playing to 100 or so fans at the Pizza Express … Continue reading →

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