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Reviews

Tanya Gold, in The Spectator, writes restaurant reviews; they are almost all unfavourable.

The Cost of Living

Are you feeling the pinch?

Etiquette

Here are some tips: never say “how are you?” to anybody over sixty; never, ever, ask if they have had problems with a printer. It is safer to ask after children and grandchildren.

The Remains of the Day

Young Mungo may be cathartic but it is an unedifying book. I turned for relief to another Booker winner (in 1989).

Holding

At Number 56 we give the thumbs down to any TV series that has too many episodes (dispensation granted to The Crown) and is too shaggy dog, so it is seldom you will read a recommendation here.

Z

Z has been adopted as a symbol of support for Putin’s army, because it is painted on the flanks of Russian tanks.

The Mouse That Roared

While BBC news programmes warn of a red weather alert (danger to life) in London and the south east, the BBC Weather app is more sanguine.

The NYT Wanks

Stage and Screen

Would you like to go to a musical about two teenage (18 and 19) Chicago college boys who murder a 14 year-old boy in Chicago for fun?

Grouse, Toast and Chips

There are some TV programmes, say Stella Street (1997 – 2001), that are unlikely to be repeated. Another is Toast of London (2012 – 2015).

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