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BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court.

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Fresh from The Edinburgh Festival – BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court. http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk– “Probably the most influential fringe theatre in the world” (Time Out). 1 Oct to 26 Oct. Please see times and prices on the website.WHEN ART AND ACTING MEET AND SHAKE HANDS Written performed and painted by KARA WILSON Wife of renowned actor Tom Conti and writer and performer in several plays, Kara Wilson does a show involving painting a Beryl Cook piece of artwork which can be bought at a later date by admirers. The title of the artwork done live on stage is … Continue reading BERYL COOK: A PRIVATE VIEW Finborough Theatre Earls Court.

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Lust while the daylight dims

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Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age. Our evenings the flames of gutter and dwindle pleading for a snuffer. The author’s own life spanning from 1960s boarding school to the scoundrel times of just yesterday, graphic explanations of cosiness battles with lust  amid dimming of the daylight.  … Continue reading Lust while the daylight dims

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Media credulousness fuelled Trump’s rise

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Donald Trump do not involve paying hush money to a porn star or conspiring to subvert 2020 election, and his notion that he is a self-made billionaire who personifies the American dream.  Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne … Continue reading Media credulousness fuelled Trump’s rise

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Catriona Robertson at The Muse Gallery

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Catriona Robertson at The Muse Gallery 269 Portobello Road W11 1LR until20 October 2024.www.themuseat269.com – prices range from £20 to severalthousand.An interesting background story to the creation of these works of art…readon… Catriona is fascinated by the idea of the urban landscape as a collage. She is inspired by how over time architecture forms an urban geology where layers of history are built on top of foundations. Her work responds to theinterconnectedness of nature and the city as a landscape resulting in sculptures that embody an architectural imprint. There is a subterranean network of hidden cities beneath us, organic intertwined … Continue reading Catriona Robertson at The Muse Gallery

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Faceless migrant’s struggle to survive

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This is the story of an urban migrant’s struggle to survive at  the bottom of India’s mega city.  Syeda X is  the pseudonym if a Muslim Woman who flees a deadly religious violence in the holy city of Banaras  in Varanasi for Delhi with her young family in the aftermath of riots triggered by the demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque in 1992.  in Delhi, she settled into the life of a poor migrant, with the family pitching up  £ 30 (3000 Rupees), with nowhere to live, juggling multiple jobs a day – from trimming the loose threads of jeans … Continue reading Faceless migrant’s struggle to survive

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Antitrust claim against six water companies In England threatening environmental health

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Six water companies in England have been accused of overcharging customers between £800mn and £1.5bn by under-reporting the scale of their sewage pollution, in a case that may pave the way for customers to receive hundreds of millions of pounds in refunds. Competition Appeals Tribunal yesterday lawyers for Carolyn Roberts, a former professor and environmental consultant, accused the privatised companies of abusing their monopoly position to mislead regulators over the amount of sewage they were discharging into rivers since 2015. Roberts alleges, that, as a result, Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, Anglican Water, Severn Trent, Northumbrian Water and United Utilities, were … Continue reading Antitrust claim against six water companies In England threatening environmental health

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One person’s future is predicted on another’s fatal misfortune

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On Sunday, July 30, 2017, and nine-year-old Keira Ball is on her way to parkour with her mum and brother when two tonnes of truck collide with their car. Even after roadside CPR  and surgery to stem the bleeding, two days later Keira is declared brain-dead, Yer her perfect heart keeps beating on life support. Her two sisters perform a devotional last rites by painting her nails orange and brushing out her golden hair while their parents are still a patient in intensive care.  Max Johnson, also just nine-years old breathless with heart failure and sworn into despair from waiting … Continue reading One person’s future is predicted on another’s fatal misfortune

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Misconception of at the heart of our educational system

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Drawing on twenty years as teacher, hundreds of interviews, experience on the UK Government’s Social Mobility Commission, head teacher Sammy Wright exposes the fundamental misconception at the heart of our education system. Focussing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed, academic subjects, we simply end up ranking them and our schools into winners and losers: some pupils are set on a trajectory to university- the rest are left ill-equipped for the world they actually face. Wright shows that schools are- and should be- so much more than this. With wisdom and humour, balancing idealism and pragmatism, he sets out … Continue reading Misconception of at the heart of our educational system

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Noble winner Yunus asked to lead Bangladesh

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Eighty-four-year-old Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a seasoned technocrat, micro-lending pioneer, and octogenarian Nobel Peace Prize winner to head the interim government’s chief adviser – in effect prime minister of Bangladesh, world’s eighth-most populous country, after toppling the country’s autocratic leader and his personal nemesis Sheikh Hasina, who had fled to India to escape mobs marching on her house. Yunu clad in traditional Kurt and vest had flow in from Paris, where he launched a social entrepreneurship venture with the mayor and had square named after him in Dhaka.  The institutions of the old regime -police, judiciary, government were melting away. Students … Continue reading Noble winner Yunus asked to lead Bangladesh

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Ordinary life made exceptional

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In My Beloved Life, Jadunath Kunwar, a historian, involving lining up the past with the present. Having lived through the evolution of modern India, Jadu wishes to tell “ the story of our nation at a point of time”,  but spends most of his life putting off the act of writing it all down. “ I’m not a  writer” a rural doctor tells another character. An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he was loved and has been loved in turn. Born in 1935 to illiterate … Continue reading Ordinary life made exceptional