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Here I am going back to my favourite of all the decades I’ve lived – the 1980s. I go for the Miami Vice look and drive an 1988 Camaro in this special Motoring Middle East video series celebrating 50 Years of the Camaro.
We look at the years that gave us the best in music, film and television shows, and brought new hope and optimism to the world – something we could really do with right now. Click through to watch the video.
Oh. My. God. What an effed-up year this has been. Goodbye and good riddance. #FU2016 as John Oliver said. He was right, this year was a bad vintage, it drove us stir crazy – just get outta my sight already.
But hang on, dead or alive, we’d better spin round and discuss it a little, or the rest of this page will be entirely blankety blank. Along the way, I’ve got to sneak in some tributes to happenings and people sadly departed this year.
I just signed up to #DriveTribe – what is it? Essentially it’s social media for full-on petrolheads
Will this thing catch on? Will it work? Who knows? But if it does, this could very well end up being Clarkson, Hammond & May’s true legacy for the enthusiast community, possibly even moreso than Top Gear and The Grand Tour.
Continue reading “DriveTribe – Clarkson & Co’s real legacy?”
Enjoy the desert by all means, but take your filth with you, you disgusting people!
‘We may be generating heat. But are we really delivering light?’
What a superb question by someone with the authority, credibility and experience to put a powerful voice to the concerns of all those who genuinely care for media, journalism and mass communication.
Helen Boaden, Former Director of BBC Radio wrote this in an incredible and fascinating analysis of the state of media and journalism today and where it’s heading in an extract of her speech in The Independent newspaper.
I’ve been struggling with the inevitable direction of journalism in this digital age for some time now, here is a voice confirming my fears from the heart of one of the last bastions of genuine journalism.
2008’s The Dark Knight is the superhero movie we need, not the one we deserve
I’ve just been rewatching 2008’s The Dark Knight, the middle one of the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Batman trilogy and featuring Heath Ledger as The Joker. And in the context of the last few superhero movies I’ve seen (Suicide Squad, Batman V Superman and yes even Civil War) all crude eye-popping popcorn-fodder, The Dark Knight is Citizen Kane meets The Godfather.
Let me explain.
Continue reading “What an intelligent Superhero movie looks like”
For once Last Week Tonight is not funny… because it’s depressingly true.
I’ve been wondering why the world seems to have gone stupid lately.
In fact the answer has been right under my nose the whole time. Real journalism is slowly being eradicated, and there really doesn’t appear to be a solution that can stop its decline.
It will fall victim to the new economic reality of clicks=cash as content-consumers baulk at boring ugly truths that aren’t trending.
And before you say anything, yes okay – guilty as charged. We’re all just content creators now.
What better way to see the iconic city of Berlin in Germany than by Trabi. It’s a place steeped not only in extraordinary modern history culminating the sensational collapse of the Berlin wall, but also art, culture, style, alternative creativity and diverse opportunities.
On a recent trip there with Cadillac Middle East for the launch of the all-new XT5, we got there a day early and had a chance to tour this vibrant city in an unusual and very cool manner indeed! Click through to watch my video.
Continue reading “Touring Berlin by classic Trabant + Illegal Street Art!”
RIP Abdul Sattar Edhi, a true Saint whose dedication to humanity and incredible humility will never be matched. We should mourn not for him, but for mankind, as there will never be another like him to walk amongst us.
I was privileged to have met him and took this picture of Edhi with my late father, when I interviewed him sometime in the early 90s. It was the only time my dad ever joined me in my work, and only because he wanted to meet Edhi.
It seems all the good people are leaving us now because the world is going to hell.
Celebrated humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi passes away in Karachi
Last year I ran a series of these with quotes from the Holy Quran (see those here), so for this Ramadan I decided to focus on Hadith instead – the reported sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). Hope you enjoy them!
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured. (Related by Bukhari)
