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MOOMINS ARE 65
Publication: The Times : Books
Around the end of the Second World War Tove Jansson began to publish her Moomin books. Sixty five years later there is a theme park, a franchise, merchandise, and new movies.
The appeal of the Moomins in book form - written and drawn by Jansson - is very different to any of the movies or multi-media hybrids. The books are deeply eccentric, and they quietly challenge every aspect of bourgeois life, while placing themselves in the centre of it.
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Sex Review - CITY OF SIN
Publication: The Times : Books
In 2003 Belle de Jour began her blog, Diary of a London Call Girl. For six years no one discovered her identity - only disclosed when Belle was threatened with exposure by the Daily Mail.
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The Jane Campion interview
Publication: Other Articles
We're in a restaurant eating oysters. Jane Campion says to me, 'What I am trying to do is to keep space for the unknown.'
Tall, healthy, with great presence, and a solid hold on reality, Jane Campion is a believer in energetic emptiness - maybe it's her yoga training that keeps her mind as well as her body supple.
'The unknown is frightening. If you spend all your time in front of the TV or on the computer, you can avoid your mind.'
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Once upon a Shop
Publication: Observer
I opened my first fruit and veg shop in Spitalfields in 1805...
At least that is how it feels to me because my 1790's tiny London townhouse plus shop started selling Kent cabbages and Irish potatoes during the Napoleonic Wars and the year of the Battle of Trafalgar. While Nelson was gunning the French, we were selling onions the size of cannonballs.
My shop is right opposite Spitalfields Market, now full of chic shops and funky stalls, but formally the fruit and veg market for London, just as Covent Garden was the flower market, Smithfield the meat market, and Billingsgate, the fishmarket.
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Manon Lescaut
Publication: The Times
Punk band Good Charlotte's hit - Girls Don't Like Boys, Girls like Cars and Money, isn't an operatic aria but it is yet another riff on the old theme of women as gold- diggers and chancers, heart-breakers who are careless with money and fickle in love.
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about Anne Lister
Publication: Other Articles
'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
When Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813 it is certain that Anne Lister's reading of that opening sentence would have included herself - and not as the wife
Anne Lister loved women. Born in 1791 to a military family, she later inherited Shibden Hall, two miles outside of Halifax, and knew that she needed a wife.
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THE JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY MAKERS SHOW
Publication: Visual Arts
The most satisfying thing a human being can do - and the sexiest - is to make something.
Life is about relationship - to each other - and to the material world. Making something is a relationship
The verb is the clue. We make love, we make babies, we make dinner, we make sense, we make a difference, we make it up, we make it new....
True, we sometimes make a mess, but creativity never was a factory finish.
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THE GOOD MAN JESUS AND THE SCOUNDREL CHRIST
Publication: The Times : Books
There is an interesting piece of New Testament apocrypha called The Acts of Thomas. Thomas, otherwise known as Didymus, (from the Greek for twin), otherwise known as Judas, is the twin brother of Jesus.
The text is a Gnostic one, and Gnosticism was the seductive heresy that the evolving early Christian Church worked hard to suppress. Pre-Christian in origin, Gnosticism is a doctrine of dualism that allows for an untainted spirit and a corrupted body.
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Sheila Rowbotham - Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the 20th Century
Publication: The Times : Books
As we go to the Polls it is worth reflecting that women over thirty were only given the vote in 1918 - providing they were either householders or married to a householder. Suffrage on equal terms with men didn't happen until 1928.
We have had only one female Prime Minister, and the majority of MPs are men, even though women are now 52% of the population.
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How To Save Your Pension From the Stock Market
Publication: The Times
How can you protect your pension investment from current stock market instability, and do some good in the world?
That was the question I asked myself when my pension pot lost 50k and the only comment from Scottish Equitable was that I might like to shift to a less 'green' fund.
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