His eclectic range of topics includes living in Paris and Los Angeles, the revolutionary aspects of Brecht and Beethoven, and the protocols of having a massage at a lunch party. Shifting with ease from the whimsical to the profound, he discusses Harry and Meghan (“pampered pets” engaged in the “sheer pettiness of royal family life”), mateship, grief, COVID, ageing and writer Gore Vidal (not, in fact, a world famous hair stylist, as comedian Ali G once suggested). Freud-influenced (citing the “inherent bisexuality of all humans”), he quips that therapy is “good […] for other people”, and that it “concentrates too much on the inner space at the expense of the larger social landscape”.
Author: Marty Branagan, Associate Professor in Peace Studies, University of New England
Published at: 2026-03-29 22:57:13
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