IT COMES to something in this life when you find yourself agreeing with a Tory minister. This shocking state of affairs has arisen following the disgraceful behaviour of the Sunday Mirror newspaper with its sexting sting.
A FEW years ago I had a meeting in the Yorkshire Terrier pub in Stonegate. As we settled into the upstairs room, all the leading players on the council walked in. It was interesting to see who sat next to whom, and to see who sat alone in the busy crowd, talking to no one.
PUSHING 80 she may be, but Peggy Seeger remains a singer-songwriter of force, subtlety and charm. These are, by Peggy’s own reckoning, dark songs – “not black but deep chocolate with burgundy wine”.
I HEAR that a woman of child-bearing age is going to have another baby. Exactly why this constitutes news is a mystery, but there you go.
YOU don’t hear a voice like this very often. The striking sound that emerges from Dan Michaelson is somewhere between a groan and a croon – a ‘groon’ perhaps; so deep it almost cracks.
BY REDUCING the amount of yeast, you can leave bread to rise for longer. With this recipe you can plan your loaf round the evening’s viewing or whatever else you may be up to.
AT WHAT point should we begin to worry about undue influences on our children? According to the new Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, this should be when they are still in nappies.
IT IS surely a grim irony of history that just as we mark the centenary of the beginning of the war to end all wars, the bitter conflict in Gaza has taken such a gruesome turn.
AT A glance, this latest Richard Thompson album doesn’t seem much, just a compilation of favourite songs. Yet one listen dispels such doubts, as Thompson pulls 14 songs from his capacious song suitcase, dust them off and offers new, reinvigorated versions.
FULLBRIGHT’S assured debut, From The Ground Up, marked him out as a musician to look out for. The follow-up cements such hopes, although it does so by taking a different direction.
