You can’t make it without a manager. With hindsight you’d think that the Beatles were fully-formed, waiting to be picked up by a label and blasted into the stratosphere. But nothing could be further from the truth. Of course there’s the story, the facts, but even more interesting to me is the identity of these […]

Now, for a palate cleanser… The number one criterion for a book is readability. It’s got to be something that people want to read! Which is why you can buy the vaunted award-winner, the book with all the hype, and find yourself falling asleep on the second or third page. Those people are not writing […]

(I don’t recommend you watch the below trailer, best to go in fresh) I know you’re waiting for Tuesday when “Fauda” returns to Netflix to get your hit of Israeli TV… Don’t let your views on Gaza dissuade you. The Israelis and the Danes make the best television, and watching “Unconditional” reinforced that fact, even […]

1 I became fascinated with airplanes when I was 13 and my family made a cross-country trip. Our first flight was on a 720B to Chicago. I’d never heard of that plane. It was the 707 that was famous, the epitome of the jet age. But on the tarmac I saw planes with three engines […]