The D’Israeli Column

I hadn’t heard of Edward Buckton Lamb (1806 – 1869), a Victorian architect called “a Rogue Gothic Revivalist” criticised by his contemporaries but in the 20th century Pevsner called him “the most original though certainly not the most accomplished architect of his day”. I have now seen two of his works.

Moral Relativism

Hitherto I have not grasped the stinging nettle of anti-Semitism, indeed the word has only been used once here, in December 2019.

The Secret Annexe

A friend who read my anthology of diary entries in Advent and Epiphany recommends The Secret Annexe. The title references Anne Frank’s, The Secret Annex, a collection of fiction and non-fiction written while she was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

From Rags to Riches

The OSCE has fifty-seven member States with more than a billion people in North America, Europe and Asia. In 1990, OSCE participating States pledged to hold free and fair elections (and to invite foreign observers to observe its elections).

Hughenden Revisited

28th May 1898; Queen Victoria attends William Gladstone’s State funeral in Westminster Abbey,

Daphne, John and Richard

Jack Thorne is an established playwright, television writer and screenwriter. He’s a name to look out for and as he’s only forty-five, something I wouldn’t have said fifty years ago; he has plenty more successes to look forward to.

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War and Peace

I first noticed James Norton in the BBC drama series Happy Valley in which he plays Tommy Lee Royce; a cold, vindictive, psychotic, serial murderer.

Epiphany IV

“Sculpture/Relief. The Adoration of Magi. The figures, dressed in sixteenth century costume, are grouped in an architectural setting with a vault over them. In the centre of the vault is a star surrounded by five cherub’s heads, flanked by groups of a single angel and three angels reading. There are traces of blue paint in… Continue reading Epiphany IV