Category Archives: Culture, style and the arts

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Whimsical entertaining television

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Mike | Permalink 0

For the past few weeks I have been watching the television drama Father Brown, which has been on daily at 2.15pm on BBC1. This crime drama lasts an [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Reviews

Persona by Ingmar Bergman

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Mike | Permalink 273

by Michael Skywood Clifford Persona is a disturbing film. Its a visual feast and an uncomfortable journey. It's a bit like an-edge-of-your-seat, not-knowing-whats-going-to-happen horror film. It's remarkably simple [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Reviews

Hooked dangerously on technology

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Mike | Permalink 676

Protagonists of science claim that dire warnings about the future are essentially unpredictable. They quote the 19th Century futurist who said that by the middle of the 20th [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Modern life, Political

A Song for Tony

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Mike | Permalink 1,581

by Michael Skywood Clifford My ex wife had emotional diarrhoea. Her sense of empathy was extreme. When a racehorse on TV jumped a fence she would go over [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Modern life, Religious and philosophical

The Firefly

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Mike | Permalink 0

By Michael Skywood Clifford It's a beautiful late afternoon and here I am in this wine bar/ pub, an alarming mishmash of style. It may be sunny outside [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Modern life, Reviews

The Hobbit – a review

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Mike | Permalink 16

By Michael Skywood Clifford As a lone artist writing and composing in the wind, the wind is blown firmly out of my sails when I see productions like [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Reviews

On Punk

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Mike | Permalink 18

By Michael Skywood Clifford. In 2012, the BBC are celebrating Punk with a series on BBC4 and further programmes on Radio 4 and Radio 6. I think Punk [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Political

BBC Radio 4 and its appalling propaganda programmes called ‘Today’ and ‘PM’.

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Mike | Permalink 24

By Michael Skywood Clifford. An email from a BBC executive said that the BBC are completely impartial. It took me five minutes to stop laughing. If I hadn't [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Political

Style and design

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Mike | Permalink 6

By Michael Skywood Clifford. I was very young, three, when I came across my first design icon. I lived in Europe after the Second World War and I remember studying [..]

Culture, style and the arts

Adele

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Mike | Permalink 1

By Michael Skywood Clifford. Yesterday I saw Adele sing for the first time, on BBC at 8pm, doing a gig at the Royal Albert Hall. I thought she [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Reviews