The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows.
The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows. A. A. Gill
The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows. A. A. Gill
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn’t watch television when the sun is out. A. A. … Read More
Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn … Read More
Like most parents, I’ve been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: ‘What is the point of geography – the pilot always knows where … Read More
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to … Read More
Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go … Read More
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. … Read More
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make … Read More
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put … Read More
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! … Read More
My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while … Read More
I don’t know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well … Read More
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, … Read More
It’s a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they … Read More
I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it’s 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, … Read More
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. A. A. Gill
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes. … Read More
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. A. A. Gill
The truth and the facts aren’t necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have … Read More
Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life. A. A. … Read More