Chris Rogers
Britain’s High (Low?) Street
Oxford Street is, we are told, experiencing what has been described variously as a rebound, a recovery or a revival. The tatty American...
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Chris Rogers
- Mar 17
- 4 min
‘Dune: Part Two’ (2024)
Cinema can provide an escape from reality and science fiction is supposed to foretell the future. You have to choose your film wisely,...
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Chris Rogers
- Feb 21
- 2 min
BT phone home
Hotels provide a home away from home regardless of price, location or style and whether they were purpose-built or converted. Indeed some...
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Chris Rogers
- Feb 17
- 5 min
Devices and desires
Microsoft is to allow games developed for its Xbox to be made available on other companies’ consoles; arch rival Sony may be having...
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Chris Rogers
- Jan 20
- 5 min
The Substitutions of Sir Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott had to recast Napoleon after the pandemic affected industry schedules worldwide; the same problem affected House of Gucci,...
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Chris Rogers
- Dec 31, 2023
- 2 min
The old and the new
This is the Lego 315-3 European Taxi, released in 1963 well before I was born and so with some claim to be my oldest set. Mum can’t...
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Chris Rogers
- Dec 24, 2023
- 4 min
A different kettle of fish
For years I’ve believed that St Magnus House, a riverside office building in the City of London from the prolific practice of Richard...
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