Interesting writer. He wrote some great poetry about modern Greece, too. A friend of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who ended up as a mayor in Mani, in Southern Greece. I think he knew Cavafy, and Seferis, an… (View Post)

I recommend a bit of Cavafy as you circle Alexandria, Leon. EM Forster was a fan - in fact it was he that made him famous in Northern Europe. (View Post)

There is certainly always good TV being made here and there, but the idea that the 1965-95 period of British TV did not produce much more challenging material than now just isn't supported by th… (View Post)

There is still good programming being made at times, but, on the international view, I can only pass on some what people from Continental Europe have said to me ; it's a very long time since Bri… (View Post)

Trump achieved very little in policy, but that's not really the point, I wouldn't say. He's too incompetent to carry out much sustained policy, but he's a threat to political, ins… (View Post)