I think it was the first three sentences of your biography which interested me the most, which caused me to carry on reading and then, after a while considering possibilities and the highly probable chance of being turned down or ignored, to send you a message. I’m not saying that the rest of what you…

For most of us, the impressions we have of the United States are gained not by visiting the country, by travelling along Route 66 or sitting in some bar which has been immortalised by Edward Hopper, but by watching one or more films put out by Hollywood. It’s fair to say that these films appear…

It is said, and I have often been told, that growing old is a good thing; that we have many benefits from age; that, eventually, everything will be better. As a small child I was constantly told I could not do something because I was too young. Then that things would be better when I…