Roger Neill's Blog

  I’m off, writing stuff longer than postcards for a while. Toodle pip.   (BTW I just passed 600 blogposts. Phew.)

The complacent response of the media to the death of Australian batsman Phil Hughes, not least from the BBC’s Jonathan Agnew, is p...

Stimulated by some photographs of the early days of Saatchi & Saatchi, the first meeting of the Garland-Compton board with them a...

Dennis Skinner, the Beast of Bolsovcr, says it like it is about immigration and UKIP: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30141159 ...

  Confronted by the latest trolling scandal, Sophie said to me: ‘Of course, we just used to shout at the radio or the tellie when p...

David Cameron talks about reforming the European Union and getting a better deal for Britain. But it seems that his only negotiating ...

I wrote about the new management of our local pub in King’s Sutton (or gastro-pub I should say), the White Horse, not so long after t...

Richard Sykes writes to me in response to my question (following the Schubert Project at the Oxford Lieder Festival):   "Where w...