I don’t follow basketball and until today I’d never heard of Sheryl Swoopes, but she’s just come out. It’s a really interesting piece – considered and sensitive about the complexities of sexuality. My favourite line, though, is But the talk about the WNBA being full of lesbians is not true. I mean, there are as [...]
Let me quickly recommend In Business on Radio 4. Peter Day, the excellent presenter, describes it as follows In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming [...]
I recently bought tickets for Slaid Cleaves at Borderline in London. Since the Borderline has been run by the Mean Fiddler organisation ticket prices have gone up, but they’re still reasonable. I used to pay about £8 a ticket, but now it’s more like £14. The thing that really really gets me, though, is the [...]
Sob, sob, sob. A major part of my childhood, Morph, was in the fire that destroyed much of the Aardman archive. Everyone’s been going on about Wallace and Gromit, but Morph is who I mourn. Thank goodness plasticine is cheap, I say, and he can rise again.