James McGeeAug 10, 2017So long, Mom! Tom Lehrer...poet or prophet?"Y'know, every great war produces its great hit songs and after each war we like to gather around the piano or the guitar and play these...
James McGeeAug 3, 2017Robert Hardy...historianSad to learn that Robert Hardy passed away today, at the grand age of 91. He was certainly one of our most recognizable actors and...
James McGeeMay 8, 2017Deadline...? What deadline...?Caught a smashing article in The Times Magazine last weekend: Robert Crampton's Beta Male column. Now, I know I have problems sticking...
James McGeeJan 14, 2017Clare HollingworthThe death was announced earlier this week of Clare Hollingworth at the age of 105. If the name is not familiar, Hollingworth was one of...
James McGeeOct 7, 2016Elizabeth SparrowI'm rather ashamed to say that it's only today that I came across the Daily Telegraph's obituary for Elizabeth Sparrow who, very sadly,...