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Playing games
My radio review in The Times… Football chat from Lineker and Baker, parenting debates on the World Service and a look at how boys are faring in the age of #MeToo: Too many games, too much hype. Has anyone else … Continue reading
A Brexit bad night out
I wish I could say that Nitin Sawhney’s Brexit anthem broke new ground. Definitely not a vintage night at the Barbican. Now let’s see, what rhymes with “hope and glory”? You can imagine Nitin Sawhney as he typed out his … Continue reading
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Notebook
The American people have done so much for me, have restored so fully my self-confidence, that I am constantly twisting and turning in an effort to live up to their expectations of me. Ingrid Bergman said, “You must go on … Continue reading
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The other side of David Attenborough
From my Times interview with a broadcasting legend. Among other things, we talked about his early years at the BBC, his passion for the piano and his unlikely role as a pioneer of world music: There is a strange whistling … Continue reading
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Notebook
An extraordinary aspect of the decision-making in Washington between 1961 and 1975 was that Vietnamese were seldom if ever allowed to intrude upon it. Successive administrations ignored any claims by the people who inhabited the battlefields to a voice in … Continue reading
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Being Tina Turner
My Times review of Tina Turner’s autobiography, a sequel of sorts to her 1980s bestseller, “I Tina”. Once again, her stage partner Ike – wife-beater, drug addict and musical pioneer – looms large: As awful as Ike was, there remains … Continue reading
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