Cornwall’s West Penwith: a quick guide
Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 16 May 2011. No comments.
Here’s a prejudiced and personal guide to holidaying in Cornwall’s fabulous West Penwith. More »
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Andrew Marr bans dodgy facial hair
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / TV and Radio on 14 September 2010. No comments.
Andrew Marr seems so obviously nice and clever that it seems odd to find some of what he says very irritating. Last Sunday, for instance, he announced on his BBC1 Sunday show that he thought that there ought to be a crackdown on dodgy facial hair…. Where would would this end? More »
RDN, the Pope’s visit, and BBC R4′s “Sunday”
Posted by RDN under Handling protest / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns / RDN's media cribsheets / TV and Radio on 12 September 2010. One comment.
I had a v brief outing on Radio 4′s Sunday religious current affairs programme, and it’s a privilege to be asked. Here’s the crib I prepared for the event, in which I was asked about the protest dimension of the Pope’s forthcoming visit. More »
Chichester’s “Love Story” is a stunner
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 »
Rational Optimist: RDN’s still one
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Politics and campaigns / Rightist manifestos on 20 June 2010. One comment.
It’s not often a good ploy to whinge, and this isn’t exactly a moan. Well, only a bit of one. I want to stand up for my Life On a Modern Planet (1995) and Rich Is Beautiful (2005) as works of “rational optimism”. More »
I Am Love: Flawed masterpiece
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Mind and body on 28 April 2010. No comments.
For long stretches of I Am Love, I was bowled over in much the way I imagine the movie-makers intended. It had risible patches which didn’t quite shake the wheels off the wagon. More »
“Welcome To Lagos”: They can keep it
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / TV and Radio on 16 April 2010. One comment.
There is an enormous amount to be said for Africa. Stoicism and good humour would be right up there as attributes which abound. Famously, Nigerians have all that in spades. Last night’s BBC film concentrated on a Lagos rubbish dump and its scavengers. More »
Big girls’ blouses: the new brave wimps
Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 4 April 2010. No comments.
Did you watch the Boat Race coverage? I was struck by the way Dan Snow (who rowed in several) went on and on about how winning it was lovely but losing it marked you for life. I forget the details, but it all left a powerful impression of a generation of athletes for whom winning is a graceless necessity whilst losing is a psychological catastrophe. This is bizarre and applies to other butch moderns. More »
RDN on affluence and envy on BBC News Channel
Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 14 March 2010. No comments.
The Observer ran a story about a pair of economists, Curtis Eaton and Mukesh Eswaran, who think they’ve proven that affluent societies are beset by a horrible envy, and I lobbed up on the BBC News Channel to opine. Here’s what I said and what I should have said. More »
The British and Ronald Searle
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / TV and Radio on 2 March 2010. No comments.
Searle is 90 tomorrow and Channel 4 News ran a tribute interview. Typically, the commentary had to have a little attitudinising. More »
