It is a tribute to the emotional power of poetry that, when I think of "Four Weddings and a Funeral", I remember the single funeral rather than the multiple weddings. "He was my North, my South, my East and West" - Matthew's rendition of WH Auden's Funeral Blues as he eulogized Gareth, lent pathos to one of…
God save the queen from taxes!
The Queen (there is only one "Queen") was often lampooned in the 1980s TV series "Spitting Image" . It starred a bunch of incredibly elastic, outrageously exaggerated latex puppets. My favourite sketch had the Queen at her desk, surrounded by her totally dysfunctional latex family, writing Christmas cards to foreign countries. Completing the last card she announced…
Greatest Britain
What makes Britain great? There is, of course, no single answer (and the French would suggest there is no question), but the nation that gave the world its principal parliamentary system, its principal international language and (sorry, Yanks) its principal sport must have something in its national DNA that sets it apart from all the…
Tax Break 