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A hero’s welcome

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Dunkirk – THE UNTOLD STORY!! — For The Oldie

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged 11th Armoured Division, 51st Highland Division, 97th (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment, army, British Expeditionary Force, Canterbury, champagne, Channel Islands, cricket, Croix de Guerre, D-Day, Dunkirk, Elsie Adeline Cockersell, France, Germans, incarceration, James Kingford Carson, Kent, livery companies, love, moustaches, Nazis, Normandy, Royal Artillery, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, sea-faring, St Valery-en-Caux, The Oldie, war, women, Yorkshire | Comments (0)

Two birds, one stone

Friday, October 6, 2017

Dear Amorist, I recently made a joke about my pregnant wife – and found myself receiving several pointers. ‘Have lots of sex before the baby’s born,’ said one. ‘Watch loads of movies,’ said another. Couldn’t we just watch porn, and kill two birds with one stone? Yours, &c. ASH Smyth, by email

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged advice, babies, birds, letters, pornography, pregnancy, sex, The Amorist, women | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, May 22, 2017

. There are more fragrant white flowers than of any other colour. — The Nelson Evening Mail, July 13 1908 . The inhabitants of Ipswich are the least passionate in the UK, having sex on average only 18 times per annum. Gazelles are quite amenable to snuff. Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was a fully-trained football referee and […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Aberystwyth, Americans, anatomy, children, Déodat-Guy-Sylvain-Tancrède Gratet de Dolomieu, drink, eBay, football, gazelles, Great Portland Street, Ipswich, James IV, Jesse James, languages, literature, mineralogy, Nelson Evening Mail, obscenity, Scotland, sex, Shostakovich, tennis, the Bible, the French, tobacco, UK, wives, writing | Comments (1)

Our foreign colleagues

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review of Tell Spring Not to Come This Year. — For The Spectator

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Afghanistan, Americans, documentary, Michael McEvoy, NATO, Saeed Taji Farouky, Spectator, war | Comments (0)

‘Beyond describing’

Monday, February 2, 2015

A documentary about a documentary about the Holocaust – reviewed. — For The Spectator

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged André Singer, Holocuast, religion, Spectator, war | Comments (0)

Flak Jacket to Dust Jacket

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from The Iliad to Catch-22 By Christopher Coker (Hurst 325pp £25) My Life as a Foreign Country By Brian Turner (Jonathan Cape 240pp £16.99) Seamus Heaney once remarked upon the heroes of antiquity that it is ‘not so much their procedures on the page which are […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged America, Brian Turner, Christopher Coker, Homer, Iraq, Literary Review, literature, London School of Economics, memoir, Poetry, Russell Crowe, Seamus Heaney, Vietnam, war | Comments (0)

Two Years At Sea

Friday, May 4, 2012

Anger-provoking art-house documentary about a guy who gets up to so little they don’t even bother to tell us his name (reviewed). — For theartsdesk

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Ben Rivers, documentary, theartsdesk | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.13

Saturday, April 28, 2012

David Walliams does Roald Dahl, AA Gill does Mary Beard, and I do children’s literature, Little Britain, Donald Sturrock, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sunday Times, Romans, the Daily Mail, Cicero, Bettany Hughes, Time Team, the Cambridge Latin Course, constipation, movie posters, The Ides of March, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The English Patient, […]

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged AA Gill, art, Bettany Hughes, Cicero, constipation, David Walliams, Donald Sturrock, Edward Albee, Eugene O'Neill, history, Kenneth Branagh, Latin, Mary Beard, Max Brod, posters, radio, Roald Dahl, Romans, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, theartsdesk, TV | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.12

Saturday, April 21, 2012

A trenchant critique of all things Israel-Palestine – starring Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin and Helena Bonham Carter – Ricky Gervais, retardations, Karl Pilkington, Channel 4, nurses, Gladiator, Star Wars, Leon, Madame Tussauds, Marvel, Shrek, Hamlet, Tom Phillips (RA), Lord of the Rings, Orhan Pamuk, museums, cabinets of curiosity, Istanbul, A Serbian Film, Daniel […]

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged Daniel Craig, Helena Bonham Carter, Israel, Karl Pilkington, Madame Tussauds, museums, nurses, Orhan Pamuk, Palestine, Ricky Gervais, Serbia, Shimon Peres, theartsdesk, Tom Phillips (RA), Turkey, TV, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin | Comments (0)

Town of Runners

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Documentary on what’s in the water in the distance-running capital of the world: Bekoji, Ethiopia. (Reviewed.) — For theartsdesk

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Ethiopia, Olympics, running, sport, theartsdesk | Comments (0)