Colin D Gordon

So was COP26 a success, a complete waste of time & effort, or somewhere in between? As the Sunday Times noted in an editorial on 14th November, everybody will have their own verdict. For that newspaper, although the two-week event (31st October -13th November) had been a “hard slog”, it nevertheless signalled that “change is […]

“In England, no-one goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis”. This was the sardonic reference by James Agate, a diarist and former drama critic for (among others) the Sunday Times and the BBC, to the fact that it appears most people – at least until recently- cough far more during concerts than […]