Voices in the Machine
Richard Lutz queries just who benefits from ever-newer levels of digital technology.
Review: Blue/Orange at Birmingham Rep – ‘’wonderfully angry…”
Richard Lutz watches a twenty year old play that is still relevant.
Swans of Stratford
Richard Lutz saunters down to Shakespeareland.
Sinatra and ringing in the changes
Richard Lutz checks out a film by Old Blue Eyes. But first, a word about telephones….
Brexit wreckage: The merry go round that’s gone mad
Richard Lutz scrapes through the shattered remains of Brexit-land to find any signs of anything …except madness.
Table talk
Richard Lutz checks out his coffee table to find out who he is.
Screengrab: When the pen is mightier than skullduggery
Richard Lutz points the finger at the TV film you can’t miss this week.
Adieu Mr Redford, goodbye 2018
Richard Lutz says goodbye to The Sundance Kid and leafs through his own bookshelf in yet another first week of a new year.
Peter Pan: ‘…a Crimbo winner, a nutcase classic’
Richard Lutz can’t get enough of panto at the Hippodrome.
Listening to the bend of the river
Richard Lutz hears the river flow
Sir Howard: I did not use my charity as a money laundering machine
Sir Howard Elston, a saint who walks among us, explains why his charity is being hounded by agents of evil.
A Christmas Carol: “…a delight, 9.5 out of ten…”
Richard Lutz – with help from eleven year old Finn – checks out a Christmas cracker.
Howard: Shock exclusive with May
Sir Howard Elston (DOA) grants an audience to Prime Minister Theresa May as she stops Brexit vote.
Dog day afternoon and other tails
Richard Lutz goes to The Edge.
Howard: New Brexit stamps issued- exclusive
Sir Howard Elston, The Queen’s Surveyor of Great Art, lifts the lid on HM’s new series of postage stamps .
Screengrab: Never forget Irving Bacon
Richard Lutz plunges into TV movieland to dredge up a gem or two.
Review: Wizard of Oz
Richard Lutz takes to the Yellow Brick Road.
Motorcycle dreams at the NEC
Alan Holland runs with the wind at the MotorcycleLive Show at the NEC and checks out the machinery straight from the crate.
Beneath blue suburban skies
Will Mapplebeck grabs the Beatles Express back to the sixties.
Ballet Review: The Nutcracker
Richard Lutz chats with eight year-old Stan about The Nutcracker at the Hippodrome.
Letter from Brexitland: In the terrain of the unbridgeable
Richard Lutz listens to the clock tick away until Britain leaves the EU.
Brexit bonanza exclusive: May talks to Sir Howard
Sir Howard Elston; scourge of the right, enema of the left, reports on the Euro-crisis.
No tooth, nothing but the tooth
`Richard Lutz stumbles through another week.
Trump shock exclusive: His first mid-term interview
Sir Howard Elston sits down with the Prez.
Great Escapes
Richard Lutz enjoys light comedy in a dark world.
When smoke gets in your laws
Richard Lutz on the need for drug law reform.
Getting to the church on time
Richard Lutz peeks into two churches on walks near Birmingham.
Review: Not Today’s Yesterdays
Richard Lutz views a one-woman show that explores how colonialism poisoned a pristine world.
35 years on: I went on a demo
Richard Lutz takes to the streets filled with anti-Brexit protesters and latte.
Review: Abdullah Ibrahim at Warwick University
Richard Lutz takes his pew to listen to a jazz giant.