Category Archives: Reviews

Operation Violet Oak

Here is my review of Operation Violet Oak in the Fortnightly Review.

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Yeah! High Fives all round!

Update August 2023: over 65,000 views! Over 40,000 visitors! Thanks to all of you who have clicked on any post of mine. As an outlying writer, a maverick and ancient fellow, I hugely appreciate the response and attention I get … Continue reading

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TACTILE, UNTOUCHABLE

Here is a new review for the Fortnightly Review – Tactile, Untouchable Looking at three stunning works of visual art on show in London just recently. I am dedicating this review here to the memory of Mary Maclean Another Review … Continue reading

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Penda’s Fen

  Just watched David Rudkin/Alan Clarke’s film Penda’s Fen. Bizarre, terrifying masterpiece. Thankyou Caroline Ffrench Blake for lending me the DVD. Alan Price has a review of the film in the Pelicanist.   Set in the Cotswold Hills.

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Theatre Reviews

Here is a review in the Fortnightly of Christopher Reid’s Love, Loss and Chianti. 20 March 2020 – subject to postponement. Worth seeing when it returns. XXXXXXXX Here is my review of two intriguing plays in London this April (2019): … Continue reading

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MODERNIST MANQUÉ

‘And when upon your gentle breasts I lie (In due obedience to Nature’s laws) It is in truth iniquity on high That they should open out in chests of drawers… …Surrealist love! For God’s sake change your form Back to … Continue reading

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