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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) / Theodor W. Adorno (1903 - 1969)     I.    The narrator of  Lady Chatterley's Lover  identified the modern er...

  The girls of Legs & Co. on  Blue Peter    (BBC Television, 14 Jan 1980) [1]   I.     There are numerous variations of the hornpipe , b...

  Stephen Alexander / Simon Solomon Dear Simon, Thank you for your remarks on a recent post entitled ' Yabba Dabba Doo! ' (28 Feb 20...

Betty, Wilma, Barney, and Fred enjoying a good laugh The Flintstones (Hanna-Barbera Productions, 1960-66)       A question I am often asked...

 Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby in Rising Damp (1974-78) and as Inspector Truscott in Loot (1984)   I.    As a Rising Damp aficianado, I was ...

Visualisation of how Eduardo Paolozzi's Oscar Wilde  sculpture will look when installed in Chelsea The Paolozzi Foundation     A new scu...

Just another day in the press office at Charisma Records  for Jazz and Lee Ellen (1984)     Entry from The Von Hell Diaries Tuesday 7 Augus...

The Adoration of the Golden Calf – image from the  Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg  (12th century)   I.   According to the Book o...

  Adapted from the poster for I Am Greta (a documentary film dir. Nathan Grossman, 2020)   I.    Byung-Chul Han says that the idiot has all...

I.    The American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is perhaps best remembered today for a (semi-autobiographical) s...

Philosopher A. C. Grayling -  give this man a toga and a crown  (Photo: Simone Padovani)     I don't much like long-haired British philo...

The Overlook Hotel ( The Shining , 1980)       For a long time, I have dreamed of one day living in a hotel. Not staying for a short break o...