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I did happen to see Mr Self at a concert that I was attaneding a couple of weeks ago.

La Grande illusion (1937) Jean Renoir Banned by Mussolini and seized by Hitler (Goebbels referred to Renoir as "Cinematic Public Enemy Number 1"), La Grande illusion is the granddaddy of PoW escape films. A group of French officers is captured during WWI ad taken to a PoW camp for...

I'm currently on the eighth floor of an office building in central London. Looking straight to my left (approximately east), I can see down Euston Road and up Pentonville toward Islington. Slightly to the north are the British Library, St Pancras International Station and King's Cross. Arsenal's...

I go for lengthy walks – usually with camera in hand.

Indeed. Although conversely, it's an extraordinary experience to discover that one has the capacity for feeling real, genuine emotion where previously one had not.

The last concert that I went to was a week ago on Monday – Daniel Barenboim playing four Beethoven piano sonatas at the Royal Festival Hall, London, as part of his eight-concert performance of all 32 sonatas. It was extraordinary – the first time that I've ever witnessed a genuinely great...

I am well aware of what contentment is (and it's no bad thing), but I have had times that are way beyond contentment; a real, deep sense of pleasure – of joy, indeed. Laugh-out-loud delight. Being profoundly in love and knowing that it is reciprocated. Listening to great music or watching...

Really? Why not?

I write the stuff for money too, so I'm quite familiar with it. I've seen lesbian porn that is a great deal closer to what does/can go on between women than what I've seen in porn that has been made by and for hetero males. ;) Oh, I can very much admire male bodies, including the...

There are a lot of women who are bi-curious – in western society (and particularly the UK and US) it's certainly easier to admit to that as a female than as a man, particularly since it's such a popular hetero male fantasy. There was an amusing article in the Guardian in the UK a few years...

And don't forget 'friends of Dorothy'. Isn't it amazing that there are nowhere near the same number of (essentially derogatory) names for bisexual women – perhaps that's because most straight men fantasise about that idea like mad and, therefore, don't feel an insecure need to deride it?

Foie gras and Champagne in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower last December. Gambas in garlic oil right beside the Mediterranean (first time I'd seen it) at Argelès-Plage, just before Easter in 2006. Bratwurst, sauerkraut, potatoes, pickles and soured cream, in a wonderful bar/restaurant on the...

Here's something to make you feel even happier. The etymology of the usage of the word in connection with homosexuality is not clear – although it's certainly not 'Good As You', as has sometimes been claimed. However, for those who like to contemplate 'innocent' means to the word, it's...

An odd topic indeed – possibly being done as a form of research into sexuality make-up of posters here? I'm bisexual, for all that it matters.

Never mind the EU in general, the UK public is sleepwalking into a 'big brother' society. We have more CCTV than any other country in the world (it's supposed to stop/solve crime, so presumably we have a concomitantly low rate of crime/high clear-up rate), to the extent that, in a large...

The what? In answer to your core question, let's put a slightly more philosophical slant on matters: if you're never unhappy, how can you recognise happiness?

I'm delighted to see that you'd do not have an "agenda". So refreshing. All of which does nothing to address the points that I raised – we hadn't touched on the question of faith. Unless you're now implying that it's acceptable in God's eyes to be prepared to murder a child as long as you show...

That's fine. So when Moses tells soldiers to rape and murder women after a battle, it's Moses telling them and not God. So if this book isn't really God's word, then people shouldn't go around thinking that this book has such relevance for modern life than the Niebelungen, the Greek myths or any...

So you are planning a new war already? That bloke who's president at present – how does his military record differ from Hillary's and Thatcher's?

You want someone to close down loads of industry, throw thousands of people onto the scrapheap – including whole communities – increase taxation (VAT rose by 10% under the Thatcher government, plus the creation of the Poll Tax/Community Charge added hundreds – and in some cases, thousands – of...