Bath Voice Sports News: rugby premiership in chaos as London Irish set to exit top flight (but Bath eye possible players leaving the Brentford Club)
By Harry Mottram: The Rugby Football Union gave London Irish RFC until Tuesday 6 June, 2023, to pay outstanding wages and…
Bath Voice Garden Review: avoid Georgian levels of gin consumption when visiting Prior Park Gardens due to the steep paths – in this green and pleasant landscaped valley
Prior Park Gardens, Bath. I’ve been visiting Bath since the early 1960s but somehow have never got around to taking…
Rapscallion Magazine Restaurant Review: Afro beat and performers interrupt a lunch under the trees in Marseille’s Stalingrad Square
Restaurant Review: Les Danaïdes Restaurant, Marseille It was a question of passing out in the heat and collapsing onto the…
Postcard from Marseille: the not so edgy city with its tourists, the rain and my plastic mac – but no elephants
By Harry Mottram: Go to Marseilles they said, it’s edgy and dangerous – and there’s no tourists they said and…
Rapscallion Magazine Film Review: a pianist’s critical note to Stalin brings an end to the dictator as he lies dying in his own urine
Film Review: The Death of Stalin: Putin and his mafia cronies banned the 2017 movie because they are paranoid and…
ICSM Business News Headliners: London Irish Rugby Union Club on the brink as the exiles are given until 6 June to pay wages or face expulsion
By Harry Mottram: The Rugby Football Union has given London Irish until Tuesday 6 June, 2023, to pay outstanding wages and…
ICSM Business News: recession or no recession – concerns mount with the highest level of insolvencies since the Credit Crunch when a run on the Northern Rock Bank heralded an economic nightmare
By Harry Mottram: Earlier this year experts ruled out the chance of the UK falling into a recession this year predicting…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: Cider, cigarettes and Letraset… confessions of a 70s art student
By Harry Mottram: One pint of cider for 30p and you began to slur your words. Three pints and it was…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: sex, secrets and violence – and a coming of age neo-Gothic mystery set within the shadow of Franco’s Spain in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlo Ruiz Zafon
By harrymottram DEC 5, 2020 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Teenager Daniel Sempere is the beneficiary…
Axbridge News: Axbridge Community Theatre confirm their November production – a hilarious satire set in a remote Russian village
By Harry Mottram: When the Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol decided to write a play he was frightened that the Russian…