“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.“
-Christopher Fry
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Last week I caught up with a friend of mine who knows more about American TV than is probably healthy. She is what you might call an ‘expert’. We ended having something of a tepid debate about The West Wing.
I [...]

“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.”
- Mary Schmich (Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young)
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Earlier on, I was round at a friend’s house, swapping my ability to change lightbulbs and plug [...]

“The easiest thing to do on earth is not write”
- William Goldman
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In ten days’ time, this blog will celebrate its first birthday. A cake will be baked, streamers will be unfurled and all assembled will sing a little birthday song.
And then will come the customary ‘looking back’. How much has changed in the [...]