by David Ryan | Dec 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s 30 years to the day since a fireman tried to smash my front door down at 3am. I was renting a ground-floor flat in a converted house, and while I slept, the two floors above me were ablaze. After being rebuffed by a woman, one of the young tenants upstairs...
by David Ryan | Jan 30, 2023 | Books, Entertainment, Personal, Uncategorized
I’ve become an evangelist for Audible, the audiobooks subscription service. In fact, if Amazon had conveyed the benefits of membership more effectively, I’d have joined years ago. In a matter of months, I’ve come to love it on a number of levels. Here, then, are...
by David Ryan | Apr 14, 2022 | Entertainment, Journalism, Uncategorized
Cynicism about the mass media, and newspaper journalists in particular, is hardly a new phenomenon. In 1928, Chicago newsmen Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur wrote Broadway comedy The Front Page, an instant classic that cemented the idea of the hard-boiled,...
by David Ryan | Apr 7, 2022 | Journalism, Personal, Uncategorized
How time flies. Is it really 30 years since I looked across a room and saw a future prime minister utter an obscenity? Disconcertingly, it is. And as my mind drifts back to April 1992, memories of the UK political scene loom large. A year and a half earlier, the...
by David Ryan | Dec 30, 2020 | Entertainment, Film, Uncategorized
This Christmas, I’ve been watching a movie about a downtrodden American who, with guidance from celestial beings, receives a second chance at happiness after discovering that life is a gift and he ought to count his blessings. Most years, I’d be saying this...
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