You Can't Be Young Always. The Day

The Canadian Version Of Julius Caesar's Memoirs? I Came, I Saw, I Coped.

In The Movies First Impressions Are Everything. Or, To Put It Less Drastically, In The Movies There Are No Later Impressions Without A First Impression, Because You Will Have Stopped Watching. Sometimes A Critic Persuades You To Give An Unpromising-looking Movie A Chance, But The Movie Had Better Convey The Impression Pretty Quickly That The Critic Might Be Right.

Little Books Are The Things To Write At My Age, I've Decided. Avoid The Big Ones, Go For The Little Ones.

In Recent Years, Perhaps Encouraged By Competition From Mcdonald's, The British Hamburger Has Become A Credit To The Nation. At The Time Of Which I Speak, It Looked Like A Scorched Beer-coaster Or A Tenderized Disc Brake.

Once, Bbc Television Had Echoed Bbc Radio In Being A Haven For Standard English Pronunciation. Then Regional Accents Came In: A Democratic Plus. Then Slipshod Usage Came In: An Egalitarian Minus. By Now Slovenly Grammar Is Even More Rife On The Bbc Channels Than On Itv. In This Regard A Decline Can Be Clearly Charted... If The Bbc, Once The Guardian Of The English Language, Has Now Become Its Most Implacable Enemy, Let Us At Least Be Grateful When The Massacre Is Carried Out With Style.