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…
Bath Voice News: the city’s Fringe Festival includes Bluffing Your Way in Ballet at the Mission Theatre (plus more dance shows in June and this autumn)
MAY 22, 2023 By Harry Mottram: Comedy, drama, music and yes dance. Bath Fringe Festival has so much but dance is…
Axbridge Pageant: The 1920s and 1930s when the town modernised during the 20th century and some residents enjoyed inside toilets, women got the vote and education was compulsory up to the age of 14
By Harry Mottram: This is an article from the 2022 Axbridge Pageant programme. War gave way to peace and a…
Axbridge Pageant: Violence, cruelty, blood and disorder – how bull baiting fever took over the town
By Harry Mottram: We claim to be a nation of animal lovers and often turn our disdain for barbaric sports…