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FLUSHED WITH GB SUCCESS

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September 11, 2012
GB winners

Andy Murray takes his place with other team GB heroes.

“They’ve got a name for the winners in the world – I want a name when I lose”.

Steely Dan’s sentiment in Deacon Blues is one British sports fans could wholly relate to until what happened this Summer.

The days of being plucky runners-up and gallant losers is, temporarily at least, in the past.

The turnaround all began with the unqualified success of the London Olympics which brought an unprecedented haul of medals for team GB. Continue reading →

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BBC’S THE HOLLOW CROWN – PART ONE

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July 13, 2012

RICHARD II by William Shakespeare – directed by Rupert Goold  (BBC Two)

Richard loses his crown.

This is why you pay out for a TV license. Well, as I live in Italy, I don’t actually have one but if I was still in the UK I’d happily cough up the fee to fund quality productions like this.

Okay, a play written in 1595 is not exactly contemporary drama yet when Patrick Stewart as the aptly named Gaunt pronounces on England’s fading glory, he could easily be making a speech about the state of the nation today:  “this dear dear land is now leased out….. that England, that was wont to conquer others, hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”  Continue reading →

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