Lifestyle topics
Recently we had a calm and interesting discussion about same sex marriage. Ranged on one side were those who felt that the word “marriage” is freighted with a long history and belonged only to the world of heterosexuals. Yes, it was right and proper that gay unions should be recognized by the law and that …
We should expect some form of wisdom, even common sense, to emerge from our rulers, whether they be the uber-capitalists or the errand boys in politics who do their bidding. To allow Wall Street and City characters, whose only talent is to make profit out of obscure financial instruments, to lord it over us, to …
Conversation accidentally overheard in a concert hall: “…………It’s a Debussy piece, which he authorised with the publisher years before. But in this later edition a number of notes had been added in bar 232. There’s nothing wrong with the new notes , but I personally think that modern instrumentalists should play the original version”. “There’s …
The weather is hot and sunny. I walk through Kensington Gardens and into Hyde Park, into odd corners I have never visited before. An old man (he turns out to be the same age as myself), is picking up scraps of rubbish thrown down by passers-by. He is thin, unkempt and is missing most of …
We go shopping for shorts and trousers at Selfridges, after Harrods the largest department store in London. This is an experience that persuades you (if you needed persuading) of your total irrelevance to the marketers of the modern world. The menswear floor is like a huge barn, a wasteland of jeans and and T-shirts in …
