Once upon a time, when computers started communicating - and infecting - one another over a network we likened it to a spider’s web - a World Wide Web. What a brilliant metaphor it was!
BBC TV News was once classy (I’m guessing Michael Burke would already have been in post-Biblical tragedy era). [...]

Today’s the day. London’s Congestion Zone doubles in size to take in Chelsea, Kensington and Westminster whose residents and businesses are understandably unimpressed. There will naturally be acres of newsprint dedicated to this, the most controversial issue faced by the capital’s drivers and introduced by our beloved Socialist Mayor (yes I voted for him [...]

One of my very favourite books is Mother Tongue by (Baron) Bill Bryson, England’s adopted Anglo-American peer who seems to turn butter into gold when it comes to churning out best-selling travelogues.
But a few years ago he published a young Einstein-type ‘Idiot’s Guide to Every Aspect of Science and Natural History You Never Knew You [...]

Sunnier Times Ahead
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‘Moss Bros’, City of London

I had this great idea when I was young, that Star Trek represented one very good reason why I shouldn’t embrace any religion. Following one God I reasoned, was pointless when Captain Kirk came across a different planetary diety every Saturday night, so why should that Khan-looking idol in a white [...]

Ruskin Park London

Newsagent, Dulwich London

As fellow bloggers have pointed out, oggling through glass is becoming a disturbing habit. It may get me into trouble with the ‘long arm’ but it also might become what the art world calls a period. My Window Period.
Even though windows might be considered one of those photo-clichés we have all fallen for [...]

Dalmatian spots, London

Another animal and window theme and if it’s Friday – which it most certainly is, it must be Cruella de Ville skulking with her 101 spotty hostages. But this post isn’t about dogs, no-sir.
Under normal circumstances I could have recommend a private view of this newly-opened couture shop in Dover Street. [...]

Window, City of London
 
Lock-ins. I’m thinking miniature people here - like The Borrowers. Too small to abseil down the door, pick the upsized locks and gain an inch of Lilliputian freedom.It brings back a memory of paying a surprise visit to an old primary school, only this time as a pole-high grown-up; [...]

South Bank London