AA Gill on The Arctic Circle
Cold. We spend our lives getting out of it, away from it; our whole human history has been spent avoiding it, wrapping up against it, fighting and escaping it. Cold shoulders, cold stares; vengeance is cold, corpses are cold. Who wants to be cold? Hot is good: hot bodies, hot dinners, hot sex and holidays. [...]
Rod Liddle on Dubai
Construction halted, westerners jailed for adultery – but prostitutes do well Andrew Blair says he will pick me up from outside my sleaze-bucket of a hotel, give it 20 minutes or so, got some work to finish off. He has a job again, contracts apparently “coming out of his ears”, which is good, because until [...]
