Flip Grater: Song bird

It was a night, as my dear departed granny used to say, as cold as a witch’s tit. Stars glittered like ice crystals in a clear black sky above as I sat cradling a warming whisky amid a clump of half-frozen friends, some of them incorrigible optimists foolish enough to have arrived wearing shorts

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Why bring God into it, Matthew McConaughey?

OPINION: Why Matthew McConaughey Why’d you have to bring God into it It’d be interesting to know how many of the hundreds of millions of people watching the Academy Awards on Monday switched off or hit mute, like I did, when McConaughey invoked the world’s most popular imaginary friend during his acceptance speech for the Best Actor gong. What’d be sobering, however, is how many more – at least in the US – said “Amen, brother” and crossed themselves during the broadcast

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