It started out so well… like most ideas whose time had come. No-one knows exactly HOW it started, but suddenly people began waking up to the fact that the future wasn’t fixed. It could be changed. WE could change. Strange now, to imagine that things could ever have been otherwise, but before the 1960s […]
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity” Charles Dickens certainly knew how to describe the general mood prior to the French Revolution. Many people feel this […]
I went to see the movie HER the other day. I’d been a bit ambivalent about going… on the one hand there are great reviews of the original plot line, on the other hand, a story of a man who falls in love with his computer may sound more like reality TV! Whereas most sci-fi […]
Have you seen the High Street lately? Every window has had a makeover. The confectionary shop is an explosion of heart shaped chocolates. The book store has replaced all the celebrity autobiographies with love poetry. The supermarket has an entire aisle dedicated to edible love tokens, pink champagne and recipes for romantic dinners. And don’t get […]
Van Morrison had a reputation for being a bully. I suppose these days you’d call it being a badass but it being 1979 the term hadn’t been coined yet. A badass commands a certain amount of respect whereas a bully just engenders fear. I am in the lobby of a hotel in Amsterdam where […]