Richard D North welcomes you to his new blog. (It links to my old site, now archived.) I am a right-winger, in love with the free market and arguing against the soft-left, liberal, green, PC consensus. Oh, and I'm a conflicted softie. A bit hippy and arty round the edges too. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 30 August 2010. No comments.
This show sounded like a major apologia and a minor mea culpa from the BBC’s chief climate change analyst . It was, though, mostly depressingly familiar. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant on 18 August 2010. One comment.
A little late, I know, I picked this book up whilst hanging around to see a movie. It might have been The Hurt Locker or The Ghost, and either is relevant. More »
Posted by RDN under At the theatre on 14 August 2010. No comments.
Two sparky delights. But were they one tad too perfect, too technical? More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 7 August 2010. No comments.
Can’t stand sci-fi? Allergic to blockbusters? Try this great big blockbuster sci-fi movie…. More »
Posted by RDN under At the theatre on 7 August 2010. No comments.
The audience was lively by Chi standards, and that sort of swept one along… More »
Posted by RDN under At the theatre / Uncategorized on 26 July 2010. No comments.
We paid £50-odd for our two tickets, and added to it nearly £9 to buy the script by Howard Brenton. We left at half-time, and would willingly have paid a little more than£25 to be out of the place. The £9 was so I could reassure myself that there wasn’t some second act bombshell which made this dire piece worth watching. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 25 July 2010. No comments.
I was asked to appear on Radio 4’s special programme BP: Beyond the horizon and the Macondo disaster. Would it transform the firm and the oil business? I’m clinging to the idea that it won’t much, but with one big caveat. Here’s the crib I prepared…. More »
Posted by RDN under At the movies on 22 July 2010. No comments.
This stunning movie is a blend of Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness (or Apocalypse Now) and Karen Blixen’s Out Of Africa (book and movie). Swirl in some Lord Of the Flies and you’ve sort of got the picture. Goodness knows why the right-ons love it. More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns on 21 July 2010. No comments.
These books certainly fit my prejudices, but also tally with my 4o years of following the news in a middlebrow sort of way. If they’re wrong in any particular, or their general conclusions, it’d be fascinating to see the evidence. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 25 June 2010. No comments.
Forty years on and Erich Segal’s “Love Story” makes a surprisingly spikey and yet delicious show in Chichester Festival Theatre’s Minerva Theatre. More »
