Category Archives: You wish you'd said that
No regrets
“I would hate to leave this world without saying that I have had a good ride of it all. I have lived my life the best way I know how and I regret nothing.”
No regrets
“I would hate to leave this world without saying that I have had a good ride of it all. I have lived my life the best way I know how and I regret nothing.”
Constructive feedback
“…she is the most offensive sham, inside and out, that misrepresents and satirises the human race today”
Constructive feedback
“…she is the most offensive sham, inside and out, that misrepresents and satirises the human race today”
Ripples
All of my reporting life, I have thrown small pebbles into a very large pond, and have no way of knowing whether any pebble caused the slightest ripple. I don’t need to worry about that. My responsibility was the effort.
Ripples
All of my reporting life, I have thrown small pebbles into a very large pond, and have no way of knowing whether any pebble caused the slightest ripple. I don’t need to worry about that. My responsibility was the effort.
Rare bird
The English painter, composer and author Lord Berners was both aristocratic and eccentric, but his keen wit and genuinely surreal flights of fantasy differentiate him from the “ooh I’m mad me!” antics of, say, Lord Bath. Although naturally shy, Berners had a rare gift for malicious social awkwardness…
Rare bird
The English painter, composer and author Lord Berners was both aristocratic and eccentric, but his keen wit and genuinely surreal flights of fantasy differentiate him from the “ooh I’m mad me!” antics of, say, Lord Bath. Although naturally shy, Berners had a rare gift for malicious social awkwardness…
Ronald works the room
Nancy Cunard recalls a meal in London in 1922, memorably interrupted by fey English novelist Ronald Firbank…
Ronald works the room
Nancy Cunard recalls a meal in London in 1922, memorably interrupted by fey English novelist Ronald Firbank…
