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Aspects for the week beginning 21 April 2024

Salman Rushdie Less than two years ago, Salman Rushdie was stabbed 12 times on stage in New York by an attacker who thought him "disingenuous". It would not have been a surprising event decades ago when he was prominently facing a fatwa called for by the Ayatollah Ruhollah ...

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Aspects for the week beginning 14 April 2024

O.J. Simpson (1947 - 2024) "They were a dramatic, fractious, mutually obsessed couple before they married, after they married, after they divorced in 1992, and after they reconciled." ~ Sheila Weller American football star, actor, murder suspect O.J. Simpson died this week, from prostate cancer, at the age ...

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Aspects for the week beginning 7 April 2024

John Torode and Gregg Wallace Celebrating 20 years of Masterchef "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!" ~ Gregg Wallace John Torode and Gregg Wallace were celebrating 20 years of their collaborative presenting of Masterchef this week (on the This Morning sofa), although perhaps ...

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Aspects for the week beginning 31 March 2024

Bernard Williams (1929 - 2003) "He understands what you're going to say better than you understand it yourself, and sees all the possible objections to it, and all the possible answers to all the possible objections, before you've got to the end of your own sentence." ~ ...

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Aspects for the week beginning 24 March 2024

Bryan Ferry, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall I have written about the love triangle between Pattie Boyd, George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and the entanglements of the various members of Fleetwood Mac...but it was pointed out this week that I haven't written about the "love triangle" between Ferry, ...

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