I picked up Sam Peckinpah's Convoy on Blu-ray, which is going cheap at HMV at the moment. Had a great old time with it, particularly with the extras, hundreds of production stills and several good documentaries on the different versions of the film. (Note: The 3-disc version by

Oh, dear. I'm getting ready to go to a wedding in Kazakhstan next week, and I've just seen what the temperature may be. I got sunburnt on a day out on the Norfolk broads last week, on a day when it rained half the day, I think I'm going to die. The temperatures are in centigrade.

Frank Grimes has died. He was Lindsay Anderson's Hamlet. Here he is rehearsing Anderson's final play, The Fishing Trip with Paul Birchard. Frank wrote a play about the making of the play.

Raising funds for the local theatre in Budapest. Here's the draft poster for my one-man show on September 7th.

I'm in Shymkent in the Southern tip of Kazakhstan. Here is the monument to Baidibek Bi, whose descendants invited me to a rather grand six hour wedding and feast, with more live singers and dancers than the Eurovision song contest. The marriage bridges the family to Budapest. I

The excavation of a rare 4th Century AD, Roman mosaic depicting a chariot race in Akaki village, near Nicosia, Cyprus 🇨🇾 The discovery of the Roman mosaic in Cyprus depicting a chariot race is a truly exceptional find that provides a vivid link to ancient Roman life and culture.

HUGE VICTORY FOR PRIVACY. The UK government has backed down on to force Apple to remove advanced encryption on iPhones. Thank you to the Trump administration and Apple for fighting this obtuse government overreach on behalf of British people.

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For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association up to £50,000. Time is running out following Imperial War Museums’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

Aubrey Beardsley, 1914.

I'm at the the Mausoleum of the poet Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166) in Turkestan, who retired from life at 63 and dug himself into an underground cell to meditate in. The Mausoleum was commissioned in 1389 by Timur.

It's always good to see a recent co-worker in the papers: “I don't care. I don't blame people. Like in England, they don't really say my name right. The last set, everyone was saying my name wrong. There was Swedish people and people from Hungary. You just give up. But again,

I've seen the end of civilisation. It's 41 Euros for a hamburger at an airport in Turkey.

I had a good time watching Eddington at my local cinema tonight. Ari Aster is the closest America has come to producing a State of the Nation filmmaker like Lindsay Anderson - observation, surrealism and bite.

That happy feeling you get when you go on holiday, surround yourself with beautiful people, and accidentally end up on TV representing Kazakhstan in the EurAsiaVision Song Contest. What a great day.