Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 19 September 2011. 2 comments.
I had four great days in and around the Hanseatic League city, Visby, and its island of Gotland. As the new Gudrun Sjödén catalogue says: the island is a symphony of greys. Visby, though, is vivid, and brilliantly coloured. It has plenty of Farrow and Ball chic, but also bags of winter-defying gaudiness. (All in the best possible taste, of course.) Here’s a brief guide… More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns / RDN's media cribsheets on 26 August 2011. 2 comments.
I’ve been invited to the Greenbelt religious festival (27/08/11) to debate ” The Poor are Poor because the Rich are Rich?” It is arranged round a Methodist document, Of Equal Value: Poverty and Inequality in the United Kingdom. More »
Posted by RDN under Handling protest / Mind and body on 12 August 2011. One comment.
Here’s a stab at an explanation for these nice, middle class rioters and looters. It’s clear that they are not immoral or wicked, or even all that badly brought up. More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
