
So Donald Trump isn’t the Wicked Witch of the West, he’s just the Wizard of Oz.
So Donald Trump isn’t the raging demon of our nightmares after-all. Or so we are meant to believe. Watching him at the meeting with President Obama at the White House yesterday, he…

What does BREXIT mean Mrs May?
BREXIT effigy from Lewes Bonfire 2016 First we are told that Parliament doesn’t need to decide Britain’s future over leaving the European Union and now we are informed that our High…

Numbers count in Fibonacci Poetry – and for The Fib Review’s anniversary issue.
I’m celebrating today and it’s not all about numbers. They figure strongly in writing the usually short poetry form the Fibonacci poem which is based on the so-called Fibonacci Sequence of numbers.…

Instagram and I have had our first row. (We still love each other really.)
I’ve had a lot of fun with the new technologies that have revolutionised our lives over the last twenty years or so. I’ve recently been marking anniversaries (big ones) celebrating early online…

Wolfie’s guide to writing poetry with complete list of necessary tools.
Today is National Poetry Day here in the UK, so I thought I’d mark it – as I did yesterday, by working on a new poem. I tried to do what mostly…

The tragic departure of a much-loved beard – Wolfie has to hide his face in shame.
It was all a terrible mistake! Honestly, it wasn’t deliberate. I was just trimming my beard, as you do…. then the unspeakable happened. I’d got the wrong setting on the razor…

Octopuses trying to save our Bees – watch the video.
My son Adam Bell’s Brighton-based band Octopuses are releasing their new video today, Not The Bees, which is a witty, characteristically zany and rather beautiful song about, yes, bees. Behind the humour…

My Fibonacci Poem, Brief Encounter, is transformed into a miniature movie.
In a collaboration with the multi talented American film-maker Joseph Nussbaum, another of my Fibonacci poems has been turned into a miniature movie using the virtual world of Second Life as…

My friend and companion the iPod keeps me running on that treadmill.
Going to the gym is enjoyable enough. I try to go at least three times a week to the pleasantly eccentric one at the White Hart Hotel, near to where I live…

My miniature Fibonacci poem The Music Of The Spheres becomes a movie – Wow!
I wrote a miniature Fibonacci poem five years ago on the gigantic subject of humanity’s ideas of the Universe and religion – well, there’s no need for humility if you’re writing a…

A perfect summer evening for a less than perfect production of Mozart’sMarriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne.
Le Nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne, 2016. It was a lovely day for a wedding. Yesterday Glyndebourne Opera house looked at its most seductive on a hot golden day…

The Last Brexiter exits – what a load of wallies!
Exited BREXITER Andrea Leadsom stands down from the Conservative leadership election. So there they all go! Whoops. After the Leave campaign in Britain’s EU Referendum claimed victory, it all looked like celebration…

Ho-ho-ho! Britain has got its sovereignty back and it’s all going to bedemocratic again. Or will it?
David Cameron and his wife, Sam, celebrating their narrow victory. It all seems such a long time ago doesn’t it. Dave and Sam Cameron getting one of the biggest shocks…

Me, Marc Bolan and David Bowie – meeting again in The Fib Review.
David Bowie and Marc Bolan in rehearsal at Granada Television in 1977. In the early years of my TV career at one of Britain’s leading independent television companies, Granada, I…

What should we BREXIT from next?
Horrified grenadier guard hears the EU Referendum result. So now that Britain has caught the Referendum habit and voted to leave the European Union, what next? Shock horror is still taking…

Little England let the dogs out.
I’m sorry fellow Europeans, I voted remain as did many other people here in Britain, please lets strive to remain friends. The country has voted and the result is official. The United…