Written by me
Peter Rosengard negotiates a tricky few days in Dublin Last Saturday I was reading the paper on a plane on my way to Dublin. Now I’m not the kind of man who likes to hit a successful cafe chain when it’s down, but the news…
In an attempt to bond with his daughter our raconteur decided that he would live a feminist vegan life Last Monday I popped over to Melbourne for six days, to see my daughter, Lily. “You went to Australia for six days?” my friend Chris said…
A week in the life of Peter Rosengard MONDAY ‣ The phone rang; it was my friend Ronnie. “How are you,” he asked. “Great,” I said. “That is, apart from breaking my ankle this morning.” “Great! I’ve got this idea for a film based on my…
If you’re going to volunteer for a war — make sure it’s a six day one. On Monday June 5 1967 my 20-year-old self was trying to pursuade one of the Zionist Federation staff in Piccadilly Circus that I qualified for a seat on the…
Insurance man On Sunday, I was in a café in West London having a croissant and single espresso (as that famous Jewish detective Inspector Montalbano once said: "God made the croissant for espresso") when I got talking to the man at the next table, Yemi…
I flew to Ibiza this week. I'm a regular rave house basement first floor DJ there, I do it once every 40 years, but this time was different. It was the first time I'd been out of the UK since the Referendum. That things had…
Saturday During the war, when he was asked what he did when he felt the need for exercise, Churchill puffed on his cigar and said: "When I feel the need for exercise, I go and lie down in a darkened room until the feeling has…
This week, a scientist at Sheffield University- announced that the iceberg that sank the Titanic was larger than a lot of people might have thought. He has calculated that it originally weighed 75 million tonnes and was more than 100,000 years old. By the time…
Willie Sutton, the famous American bank robber in the 1930s who kept robbing banks, going to jail, coming out, robbing more banks, was once greeted by the usual pack of reporters and cameramen when he left prison again. "Willie!" a reporter shouted. "Why do you…