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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he’s got it all.

Little Black Book fired some really good questions at me about what links my commercials, TV and film work and my training as a historian. Check it here: 5 Minutes with… Olly Blackburn

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

So I asked my friend the doctor, known on this plane as David Rutsala, if you could use a song to describe the 2016 election what would it be? He asked his friends & this is what they came up with: “Mama Weer All Crazee Now” – Slade “Holiday in Cambodia” – Dead Kennedys “She’s […]

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

Absolute must read on Clinton Vs Trump by someone who knows his onions: “In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals,” Jane Goodall, the anthropologist, told me shortly before Trump won the GOP nomination. “In order to impress rivals, males seeking to rise in the dominance […]

Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

It’s not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve.