Colin D Gordon

As any reader of the “London Evening Standard”(ES) will know by now, the capital is about to get its own TV station. Since the beginning of this year, each edition of the newspaper has featured the “countdown” to the launch of “London Live TV” on March 31st. That’s because the Evening Standard’s Russian owner, Evgeny […]

The American actor Walter Matthau once remarked that, if he hadn’t been in films, he’d have liked to have been a pharmacist. Why? Because, in his youth, he’d admired the way his local pharmacist always dressed in a “nice white coat and looked very calm.” According to the journalist Nick Cohen, however, (in “The Observer” […]