When Norwich was said to be favourite in the race to be the UK’s first City of Culture, I wrote a blog which was not entirely supportive of my local city. “How the heart sinks. As the region’s mighty cohort of arts administrators and creativity facilitators prepare their power-point and pitches, sharpening up the requisite… Continue reading Forget Normal-for-Norfolk and Essex Girl – it’s time for East Anglian Man to be recognised
Read moreA small lesson in the way history smooths the sharper edges and corners of the past is being played out at the Cannes Film Festival with the help of that much-loved father figure of the alternative establishment, Sir Mick Jagger. A soon-to-be released documentary on the making of the Rolling Stones 1971 album Exile… Continue reading Nostalgia tends to conceal hypocrisy
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