David Ryan

You know those actors who say: “I can’t bear to watch myself. I notice all my mistakes”? I finally have an inkling of what they mean. In the likely event that you haven’t been following my blog, I’ll recap. Last September, my book George Orwell on Screen was published in the US. In March, the […]

I’ve been a fan of the Flirtations for all of eight days. Admittedly I’m a little late to the party, given that they settled in the UK before I was born, but I’m pleased I found them all the same. Those clever little algorithms at YouTube must take the credit. As I was saying to a […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the American satirist PJ O’Rourke recently – in particular his funny, acerbic travel books, which I became fond of in the nineties. I tend not to bother with travel articles, because (a) they’re usually aimed at well-off families and (b) you can almost guarantee that stories about the developing […]