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Music For The Day
“Let All The World In Every Corner Sing”, part of Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams: Performed here by the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.
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In Defence Of Olympic Free Speech
Marbury finds a wonderful example of people not being cowed or bullied by the over-reaching, un-democratic London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006: Image from marbury.typepad.com 2012,...
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Olympics Past And Present
Today seems to be the day to look back at Olympic Games past and marvel how far we have come. Both NPR and Slate have pieces documenting the differences in styles, fashions and sporting events that a...
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The Best Thing Of 2012
I know that it is only the first day of August, but I am supremely confident that nothing will surpass this story reported by ITV News. Apparently the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was at an Olympic...
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A Musical Glass Ceiling, Finally Broken
For the first time ever, the person given the honour of conducting the Last Night of the Proms, that great British musical occasion, will be a woman. An exceptionally well qualified woman, Marin Alsop....
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Profit Maximisation vs Public Space
Will Hutton is quite possibly the only person left in Britain who thinks that it would have been a good idea if we had joined the Euro at the currency’s inception (disclaimer: I thought so too at the...
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When Buildings Attack
Apparently the glass panes of the new curved skyscraper under construction at 20 Fenchurch Street – nicknamed the “Walkie Talkie” – are reflecting and concentrating light in a rather unfortunate way so...
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Cityscapes – 18 January, 2014
Abbey Road, London. Tourists and Beatles fans waiting to cross the zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios, St. John’s Wood. Taken from the top of the 139 bus.
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Cityscapes – 23 January, 2014
The Guildhall School of Music and Barbican Centre, London
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