Airports are impersonal places and Manchester’s terminal 1 is no different, although it’s clearly going to be about as good as you can expect once the redevelopment is complete. I suspect we’ll see a couple more chains, like Giraffe, but that’s okay. You don’t expect individualality airside. So on to the veggie breakfast. Continue reading
That may be Eddie Izzard at the Yang Sing lectern, but the star turn at last night’s fundraising dinner for Manchester Withington was David Miliband, the foreign secretary, whose speech reflected the themes of his infamous Guardian article (download the podcast). It’s great that Miliband refuses to be cowed by the fallout from Continue reading
The Tattooist mythologizes Samoan tattoos, introducing some spiritual mumbo jumbo, and pitches itself a decent horror flick. Yet no matter how hard the soundtrack tries, the New Zealand cityscape can’t be made to look cosmopolitan, and for much of the film we’re told we should be scared without a reason. A tragic decent Continue reading
Shortly after I started shaving, about 25 years ago, my mum bought me a cheap electric shaver and it was a disaster. It gave me a terrible rash. And so I’ve been happily wet shaving ever since. But then Amazon offered me a Philips HQ8290 Shaver for review purposes and my inability to Continue reading
YouTube-podcast Liverpool, a so far lacklustre City of Culture 2008, certainly pulled out the stops this weekend with La Machine, some truly spectacular street theatre. Liverpool was transformed into the set for a 1950s style sci-fi as La Princesse, a 50ft spider, stalked the city streets, indulging in a water ballet one minute, Continue reading
