Sicily indeed has multiple layers of culture and history, visible in the people, and great food. There are also some quite acute pockets of deprivation in some areas, that are worse than parts of Gre… (View Post)

I like both ; I think there's still a revelatory, almost chiidlike strangeness about Barrett, but unfortunately between about 1967 and 1969 the childlike wonder and fascination with things turne… (View Post)

My wife's family knew Peter Green's younger relatives, apparently. One of that generation of postwar East End Jewish boys drawn to the 'sixties creative industries ; Marc Bolan was ano… (View Post)

It's extremely clever and effective as politics, because a feeling of loss of social and political representation can be linked straight through to ethnic and even constitutional issues with it. (View Post)

Red Ed's Marxist Nightmare, in other words, if we remember the coverage from the time. (View Post)