On the heels of news that the UK version of RuPaul’s Drag Race will be coming to BBC3 next year, comes a Drag Race Christmas Special. No matter how much of a die hard Drag Race fan you are, it will leave you at best bemused. The show has always been full of product placement…
Buying Wine for Christmas
So, at last, the “holiday season” is upon us. Every year after the 1st of January the western consciousness begins its inexorable march towards the next Christmas period. One waits with bated breath and slowly building excitement as one holiday passes the other and indulgence and consumption come back into fashion. With the Christmas holidays…
The Hard Brexit Christmas Table (A Vision of Christmas Future)?
Ah Christmas 2019. Time to drink, be merry, share around some good will (if you can find any), and gorge yourself at tables straining under the weight of food, be it the Christmas feast with your loved ones, or trestle tables laden with finger food at one works Christmas doo after another. But no, wait!…
A Case for a Two Tiered Second Brexit Referendum
Let me start by outlining my own political position. I am a centre right, life long Tory voter, who voted to remain in the Brexit referendum. Why did I vote to remain? Because it was the best of a bad choice. I have never been a huge fan of the EU, but I believed on…
Review: The Kominsky Method
Micheal Douglas and Alan Arkin star in this superbly pitched dry, dark, emotional comedy from Chuck Lorre. Douglas plays Sandy Kominsky an acting coach whose best friend and highly successful agent Norman Newlander (Arkin) is widowed in the first episode. Heart broken and unsure how to carry on the curmudgeonly Newlander is supported by Kominsky…
The Christmas Table We’ve Forgotten (A Christmas Past)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or more likely living in a dark room of despair since the draft Brexit agreement, you don’t need me to tell you that the mercantile part of the Christmas season is in full swing. Stores are playing Christmas music on repeat to the point your ears bleed; a…