Articles...
Apr 21 2008
IMAGINE she was a stranger and you had been invited onto a panel to discuss political topics. Then you saw her sitting there....
Apr 18 2008
SHE belonged to an England which has gone now, faded into an eternal memory. For many it never existed, except in ambitious dreams, sepia images and forgotten photo albums in junk shops....
Apr 17 2008
THE deep, self-righteous tone of his voice suggested trickles of pig fat rolling down the jowls – or maybe that image came from his mountainous body quivering with rage and indignation on hearing from some grovelling toady that his quarry had escaped certain death yet again....
Apr 16 2008
HE WAS one of 13 children raised in a tenement in north Dublin, so it was not surprising that he began dreaming of space – outer space, that is – and the stars beyond our world remained a great interest as the days unfolded and he saw his name rolling down the credits of films and TV shows....
Apr 15 2008
HE WAS very much in the modern style, a man whose considerable talent was stretched into fame rather than solid achievement....
Apr 14 2008
OF COURSE, the money helped him live a life of glorious, celebrated eccentricity, huffing behind saucer glasses and an eccentric beard, of the philosophical/ Biblical brand, while dipping a sandaled sole into various causes, which often disappeared from memory with surprising rapidity....
Apr 11 2008
THEY were such respectable, God-fearing people professionals, who believed in the values of family, education, trust, respect, smart clothes, polished shoes and standing up when a teacher entered the room....
Apr 10 2008
THE brave and idealistic former Communist, whose bushy eyebrows bristled at injustice, was hired by a high- minded vicar to draw pea- green bullies from space, who were reptilian in countenance and psychopathic by nature....
Apr 9 2008
HE BELONGS to history now, like the other old ones who crossed the boundaries of time with their medals and ribbons to be the last of their kind to remember it....
Apr 8 2008
TO HAVE your career crowned by Sir Robin Day describing you as the finest television journalist in broadcasting history is as good an accolade as any. In the case of Sir Geoffrey Cox, the acclaim was well-deserved. He was the man who persuaded commercial television chiefs that News at Ten could be popular and viable without the need to trivialise or sensationalise events....
