Trainspotting meets the Olympic launch

All hail, Danny Boyle (and those who gave him the space to express himself). Both Trainspotting and the Olympic launch are full of ambition and attitude. In London last week, on a hugely risky and potent stage, he saved us from what would otherwise have been a...

Tour for Two – special offer.

Who would have thought that Danny Boyle of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire would have landed the launching spectacular of the London Olympics? But there again, if he can make blockbuster films out of heroin abuse and extreme poverty, maybe he’s the man to...

Welsh in Wales.

Not a translation job. I’m going on my hols in Pembrokeshire next week, and I’ll see if the muse visits me there. I have a breakthrough insight into the structure of Trainspotting, so I am aiming to be creative, constructive, and crashed out all in one...

German interest.

Two different German university groups have done the tour in the last couple of weeks. They have been before, and their excellent level of knowledge and understanding never ceases to amaze me. If their counterparts in the economics departments can match them, we can...