Seeing London is not about going to Madame Tussauds or -goodness, gracious me- taking a selfie outside Buckingham Palace. It is about places that Londoners know the value of, such as the British Museum, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum.   Sean Sheehan […]

For many people, it is now difficult to let 24 hours pass without either sending or receiving an email, using some form of social media or managing finances and other matters online. Behind the seductive comfort of all this are data centres which store the text, pictures and information.   […]

The word ‘energy’ comes from the ancient Greek noun ‘ergon’, meaning work, and in English ‘work’ can be a noun or a verb; hence the words energy and energise.   Sean Sheehan   No surprise, then, to find more than one meaning in the title of Michael Marder’s book, “Energy […]

Vegetarians learned long ago how to curate a standard restaurant menu by stripping out most or all of the main dishes and focusing instead on starters, salads and side dishes.   Sean Sheehan   Depending on your location, non-meat dishes now go well beyond a boring vegetable lasagne or a […]

You can enjoy an Almodovar movie but wonder if you are doing so for the wrong reasons: they may leave you speculating more about colour coordination than camera angles, pondering over your flat’s shabby-chic interior instead of a character’s interiority.   Sean Sheehan   His new film, “Parallel mothers” (2021), […]