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The story of a tweet 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
A few days ago I spotted one of the new M&S ads, with Helen Mirren, Tracey Emin et al. I thought it was interesting and a bit funny, especially given the clientele of M&S (to judge from my local branc...
A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic 20 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
I think that it was only about ten years ago that I quite caught up with what happened to Patrice Lumumba, who was the first Prime Minister of independent Congo, after the Belgians had been more or le...
A Roman (sort of) word play: House of the Triclinium, Pompeii. 19 Aug 2013 | 12:26 am
One basic message, as I have often banged on about, is that you never lose by looking at the real thing.. you always see more if you see some ancient object in real life, than if you just look at the ...
Lights and nights in New York 13 Aug 2013 | 04:17 am
I have just got back from a long weekend in New York, which turned into a brilliant combination of sitting in the hotel room just getting on with some uninterrupted work (not entirely helped by leavin...
The damn footnotes 10 Aug 2013 | 02:57 am
I know what I like, and don't like, in a footnote: an accurate and precise reference to what ever is being discussed (I mean not a reference to Smith (2008), when Smith (2008) is a book of 1000 pages ...
No visa for Paris...for one night! 7 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
Some of you will have kept up with the fact that we have been "hosting' (in a low key way .. he has really been hosting himself) a friend of the daughter's from South Sudan. Samuel has been doing a Ma...
So how was "Caligula"? 4 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
I am posting this in slightly inauspicious circumstances. I just got one of those Twitter threats... "Your house will be blown up at 10.47 tonight....". Others have received these. But even though the...
Jurors and the internet 31 Jul 2013 | 02:36 pm
I have been having a rather jam-packed week, what with Caligula and the trolls. But I dont want to forget a case that made the news a couple of days ago -- the one about the two month prison sentence ...
The goddess of Love: close up on Knidos 28 Jul 2013 | 12:30 pm
I'm writing from Istanbul airport to report back on my visit to the sanctuary of the goddess of Love at Knidios (as promised last week). The idea was to go and see whether the round building excavated...
Bikes versus cars: the Cambridge experience 23 Jul 2013 | 10:12 am
So far as the rules of the road go, there seems to be one basic principle: when you are driving a car you hate bikes, when you are riding a bike you hate cars (and I guess pedestrians hate everyone...
