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Annie’s repressed upbringing

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Catherine Fox has written at least five books solo and an additional autobiography (“Fight the Good Fight”) which is an entertaining history of her life growing up and being a young mother and a martial arts aficionado together with being wife of a man working in the Church of England. She first had the above book published in 1997, and has clearly re-published this year, as afore stated. Catherine studied English in Durham and went on to get a PHD in Theology. She is a former diarist for The Church of England Newspaper and is a writer who can pack … Continue reading Annie’s repressed upbringing

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“RULE BRITANNIA” DAPHNE DU MAURIER – an eye opening strangely topical story featuring“US-UK”

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.First published in 1972 by Victor Gollanz Ltd this is Daphne Du Maurier’s last novel. Du Maurier wrote many fictional books and those adapted to film include: – “Rebecca”, “Frenchman’s Creek”, “My Cousin Rachel” and “The Birds”.Ella Westland pointed out – “The author had known the story of Peter Pan since early childhood. Her father Gerald du Maurier regularly played Captain Hook on stage since Daphne was born and observed Emma plays Wendy to Mad’s Peter Pan, Mad’s boys being the six adopted lost boys adopted by The Darlings. Westland has a book in print “Reading Daphne . A Guide … Continue reading “RULE BRITANNIA” DAPHNE DU MAURIER – an eye opening strangely topical story featuring“US-UK”

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Norris wins Australian F1 Grand Prix

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Lando Norris of McLaren won the Australian Grand Prix in treacherous wet condition to beat Max Verstappen. The race was punctured by crashes, three safety cars and an aborted start as the Briton succeeded after forcing to fend off late threat from Verstappen. Lewis Hamilton  who was leading on lap 46, but as Ferrari made the wrong decision to stay out on dry-weather slick tyres, finished 10th on a difficult day for  Ferrari, with George Russell ending third for Mercedes. Charles Leclerc had to pit as a safety car was sent out for the final time following a series of clashes and dropped … Continue reading Norris wins Australian F1 Grand Prix

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Overtaken by boundless power, a rotten culture of Power, Greed and Madness

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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former front row seat in Meta’s growing-up stage and Facebook executive tell-all memoir questions the integrity of the social media company, where wealth, status and success are worthless achievements when stripped of meaning or moral grounding, transposing such a life to an age of Davos, private jets, and social media posts. She was working in Sheryl Sandberg’s public policy department from 2011 to 2017, interacting with Mark Zuckerberg and Joel Kaplan, a seasoned political operator who served as deputy chief of staff to President George W Bush, and the man who has replaced Nick Clegg as the … Continue reading Overtaken by boundless power, a rotten culture of Power, Greed and Madness

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Arsenal of economic weapons: How the US weaponised Dollar

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Chokepoints is one of the most pivotal geopolitical shifts of our time. As Russia, China and Iran have sought to upend the international order, America and its allies have mounted unprecedented economic retaliation. Now the global economy is a weapon of war. Globalisation was once hailed as the great leveller, bringing prosperity to all. Former top US State Department official and a scholar, at Columbia university, Edward Fishman, takes us into the back rooms of power around the world, meeting an eclectic group of innovator: the diplomats, lawyers, and financial whizzes who have masterminded a fearsome new arsenal of economic … Continue reading Arsenal of economic weapons: How the US weaponised Dollar

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AUSTRIAN FILM FESTIVAL

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WATCH AUT’S AUSTRIAN FESTIVAL’S FIRST FILM –“ PEACOCK”  PROVES AN ENGROSSING, ENTERTAINING SUCCESS. FESTIVAL RUNS FROM 13 – 16TH MARCH SO BE QUICK TO SEE SOME FILMS AS TIME IS AT A PREMIUM. At Cine Lumiere and the ICA, book to see one of a series of films including carefully selected London Premieres at www.institut-francais.org.uk and www.ica.art. The selection includes “Mehrunisa” an Asian human interest movie which is a premiere in London and all the others are Austrianinfluenced dramas, some dark and foreboding but genuinely gripping and vital. Now to “Peacock” – written by Bernard Wenger who worked interactively during the filming process. This film has already been shown in Venice and Glasgow and … Continue reading AUSTRIAN FILM FESTIVAL

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Origins of BMW

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Two engineers Karl Rapp and Gustav Otto founded on 7th March 1916, when an aircraft produced called Bayerische Flugzeugwerke formerly Otto Flugmascjomemfabrik) was established. They were not building cars, but were aircraft engines for Germany during World War I, so Germany their powerful engines can fly higher than ever. In 1918 everything changed Germany lost the war and the Treaty of Versallies banned them from making aircraft engines. This company was renamed to Bayerische Motoren Werke in 1922. On the edge of collapse in 1923 they started making motorcycles BMW R32, a motorcycle that set speed records farm equipment, household items … Continue reading Origins of BMW

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Banality of evil

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Set in May, 1940, Berlin, as Hitler prepares to invade Western Europe, there is bloodshed closer to home, when detective Horst Schenke, from the Kripo unit, who is honest investigates the death of a mobster, sacrificing his personal safety, trying to do the right thing in a state run by evil. As a result, he plunges into the criminal underworld of the Third Reich, ruled by gangsters as ruthless as the Nazis. Now Schenke must operate in the many shades of grey.  Powerless against the consequences of the war, he fights to keep criminals off his patch. But with doubts growing … Continue reading Banality of evil

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Portrait of masculinity

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Booker Prize Finalist Hungarian descent, living in Britain, David Szalay, whose All That Man Is, was shortlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize,  now brings Flesh, where 15-year-old István in Hungary, isolated after moving to a new town. His only friend sets him up to lose his virginity, only find himself too awkward with the girl, and both of them then reject him.  Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon become isolated. Under duress, he begins to help his middle-aged married woman neighbour carry her shopping: she is sexual predator who … Continue reading Portrait of masculinity

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Who’s “Heiffer”?

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In the glorious summer of 1914, Emily Grey, a young Cambridge undergraduate is studying German in Heidelberg, where she meets Hans, a philosopher with grey eyes and long lashes, who wins her heart and asks her to marry him.  Grey, like all women at the time, has not been allowed to graduate -which may be why she has sympathies for the growing demand for women to have a vote. When the First World War intervenes, she is forced to return to England, leaving Hans behind to join the Imperial Navy. A year later, Emily is recruited to serve in fledgling Secret … Continue reading Who’s “Heiffer”?