Don't forget the 'behavioural scientists' whose advice to the govt. was to delay lockdown and end it as soon as possible because it wouldn't be tolerated for more than a few weeks… (View Post)

Saw him at Hay a couple of years ago. Airport-style security at the door. Rushdie came and left by helicopter. The constant fear and enveloping security must have been a huge burden over the years. (View Post)

Roger McGough applies: https://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/r/roger-mcgough-let-me-die-a-youngmans-death.php (View Post)

I once had to organise a photoshoot in a retirement 'complex' . Pride of place was a large, airy, well-furnished common room. "Could we arrange for a couple of residents to sit there?&… (View Post)

Back in 1981 I was legally obliged to give every ungrateful employee a day's extra holiday pay to celebrate Chaz'n'Di's nuptials. I naturally assumed I'd get it all back when… (View Post)