Que s’est-il passé depuis mon départ de Saint-Étienne, il y a vingt-quatre ans? Un quart de siècle depuis mes dernières palpitations, yeux fixés sur le chronomètre de l’autre côté du stade mythique surnommé « Le Chaudron. » Et pourtant, aux fins fonds de mon esprit, je sais ce qui se passe dans l’enceinte du stade: le temps reste […]
Culture
Has My Blog Served Its Purpose?
This blog was supposed to be a remedy, a palliative treatment to cure a break in my soul – my European soul. In 2016, I had to find something to do to combat the irrefutable madness of the Brexit vote. I felt like an Emile Zola who nobody knew, crying out to the world from […]
Film Review: Yesterday Will Always Remain Tomorrow
Yesterday (2019) director: Danny Boyle Yesterday will always be better that today and never worse than tomorrow. It was a silly screenplay – the almost unknown and even more useless musician and composer being knocked down by a bus, and then realising he’s the only one on the planet who knows about the […]
Colin Bell – Farewell Nijinsky
Another glowing crystal is taken away from my fleeting youth. I didn’t know the man, but I knew the player – hero of my early teens – my hero. When he was on song, the sky blue angels danced on ice; and in the floodlit night of a European winter, he glided into the frosty […]
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Emily In Paris – Hard Truths The French Don’t Like
Critical reviews can really help boost your audience. Having read a ratter of a review that told me in no uncertain words that Emily In Paris (Netflix) was not worth the number of pixels it contained, I gave it a go. Just the first episode, mind you. That’s what I did last weekend – started […]
The Love and Soul of Antimatter – Five Poems
Poem One What’s so cool about… Antimatter, the hub of creation, Pathway to my […]
Black Lives Matter In A Land Of Hope And Glory
You’re at it again, aren’t you? Playing mind games with traditions, tearing up musical scripts and peeling off black make-up on white people’s faces. I got used to seeing Black Peter roaming the streets of Dutch towns and cities, distributing marzipan tasting biscuits to smiling children. The children believed; the children loved. There was no […]
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Sorry Mum, I Think Dad’s Had Sex With Someone Else Again
You learn a lot of things watching television and reading newspapers. I’ve just finished watching the first series of Doctor Foster, a BBC drama series featuring a rather elegant senior GP and her mug of a husband. She would have forgiven him having a sex affair with a twenty-three-year-old dumb blond – an affair that […]
The Departed
Forever in my heart and mind, You wander across the crystal lake, Happiness, you will find, Peace, you will make. I might be without you, You might have lost me, But time will see us through, And one day we will see, As everlasting entanglements of love, Continue to haunt us from above, Two souls […]
The Chrysalis
Looking into the future, I am frightened of the past, A fragile chrysalis, a butterfly that will not last, And yet you are stronger than the strongest girl, More beautiful than the largest pearl, Upon my shoulder, you search my soul, You fill me with fear I cannot control, And as you travel across the […]