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Last Thursday I had lunch in Auckland with the lovely Karyn Hay and also Kevin Ireland . This Thursday I will have lunch in Wellington...

A guest post by Graeme Lay about Don Silk , a wonderful man whom many readers will have met or seen at Trader Jack’s in Rarotonga. The c...

Chris Bell really likes Sunken Condos , the new album by Donald Fagen. Quote unquote: It’s an album you experience the way you did in the...

Truth has a new editor – Cameron Slater. Watch that space. It won’t be boring. Lemony Snicket returns . Home Paddock reminds us t...

The current issue of Private Eye reports that the October issue of Eureka , the Times ’s science magazine, was billed as the Disaster issue...

Guy Somerset, the Listener ’s arts/books editor, emailed today to invite me to contribute nominations for the 100 Best Books of 2012 feature...

For once, not unwillingly – this evening’s performance at St Peter’s School in Cambridge featured my nephew Angus Fraser with his friend Cha...

Men of a certain age go all funny about this English actress . A commenter on a David Thompson blogpost about sci-fi fashion reminds us tha...

An interview with the violinist Alina Ibragimova , with a clip of her performing Biber – current composer of the week on Concert FM –...

A guest post by Steve Whitehouse, a founding friend – a funding friend, in fact – of Quote Unquote the magazine, and occasional satirist . ...