Month: January 2021

  • Lupin is Netflix’s best show right now

    Netflix’s new show Lupin has dropped and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I love the Arsène Lupin character. He is a gentleman thief, who was created in the early 20th century by autho Maurice LeBlanc. Very much in the mould of AJ Raffles and Rocambole, Lupin featured in a series of novels and novellas…

  • Don’t be a d*ck online
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    Don’t be a d*ck online

    “It’s a shame we even have to discuss.” That was Will Smith’s reflection in his song If You Can’t Dance (Slide) from his 2006 album Lost & Found. What followed was advice for dancing which still rings true today: There’s no lip biting or pelvic thrusts, I mean, you think that move will put the…

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    Tintin at 92: Lessons from my hero

    There is no other fictional character who has shaped me or who means as much to me as Tintin. I first discovered the adventures of the perennially youthful Belgian journalist and globe-trotter in the Sunday Times’ children’s supplement The Funday Times. Every week, they used to publish an episode of his adventures and I devoured…