January isn’t my favourite month of the year. It’s cold and bleak, Christmas bills are flooding in and it’s tax return time too. To make matters worse, I’m doing Dry January. Actually, I do it every year – a habit dating back to my Evening Standard days, when most of the news room gave their livers a much-needed rest for four whole weeks. But in amongst the January gloom there’s ...keep reading
Hyde Park on Hudsonwas one of the movies on my must-see list when I whizzed up to London for a film preview day hosted by ShowFilmFirst. Why? Firstly because it stars the brilliant Bill Murray as legendary US president Franklin D Roosevelt and secondly because the director is Roger Mitchell, of Notting Hillfame. Most of the action focuses on the real-life visit by George VI and his wife Elizabeth to Hyde Park ...keep reading