The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Dear Andrew, I have been imagining you walking around Bayreuth – I have a pretty good picture of it in my head. I can visualise t...

Dear Opera Buddy O.K. So I have now seen Bob Dylan perform live, heard Parsifal at Bayreuth and met Tom Baker. I can therefore ...

Dear Andrew, I always find coffee problematic in foreign parts - milchkafee should be coffee with milk but for some reason my efforts t...

Dear Andrew,   I really did mean it when I said I wanted to hear from you. When I was learning Latin at school we read Pliny’s letters...

Dear Opera-Buddy So I said I'd give you a running commentary on what is going on in Bavaria. (I hope this is really what you...

Long time readers may remember that I said this was my favourite new song of 2011. Today might be a good day to listen to it again.

2008 Closing Ceremony 2010 Football Match 2005 Football Match

Yes, I know that a document entitled "DO NOT POST THIS" was posted for 25 seconds last night. Right wally I feel, I can tell you. ...

The Stolen & Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid; of Plato & Cicero. which all Men ought to contemn: are set up by artifice again...

I guess the first time I ever heard about a union, I wasn't more than eight years old. What I heard was the story of the two rabbits...

That's why, I think, these "political" lyrics contain so few arguments; why some of them seem almost d...

This song makes me want to be an American. I think it would still be my One Desert Island Disc.

When Christians talk about marriage, they should make it clear whether they are talking about what is good for society, or about what I am...