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A merry christmas to one and all (or, depending on your mood, possibly bah humbug).

After the last post (and the next one), here’s something a bit lighter.

Last week I was in Brighton at the British Pharmacological Society Winter meeting in the Hilton Metropole (the less said about that hotel the better). The science was fun, but on Wednesday, I had a break to walk the length of Brighton Pier.

Here are few pictures.

Tarot consultant to GSK and Astra Zeneca

Just look at the notice in the stairs.

GSK and Astra Zeneca? Funny, Richard Sykes never mentioned the Tarot approach to drug discovery. Does it work as well as high-throughput screening?

The helter-skelter on Brighton pier

For me that means only one thing:
one of the best films ever made, Richard Attenborough’s Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).
“The ever popular war game with songs battles & a few jokes”.


All the lyrics can be found here.


It isn’t easy to get, but Amazon now has a DVD.The film is based on Joan Littlewood’s 1963 musical of the same name. The First World War is run from the end of Brighton Pier.The picture shows the helter skelter, on December 19th 2007.

Clips from the film

Most of the words in the film were quotations of what was actually said at the time. Chilling.

Near the start. Negotiations fail: President Poincare (Ian Holm), Sir Edward Grey (Ralph Richardson) and Count Leopold Von Berchtold (John Gielgud). Hubris prevails on the beach and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (John Mills) starts recruiting from a fairground booth.
Click the picture to play clip [wmv file, 52 Mb]

Later. Down the helter-skelter, into the trenches of the Battle of the Somme.

More hubris from Haig as the score is kept on the cricket scoreboard on the end of Brighton pier.

First day: losses 60,000 men, ground gained, nil.

Haig says “I feel that every step I take is guided by the divine will” (so no change then, just like Bush and Blair). Click the picture to play clip [wmv file, 26 Mb]

The final scene. Iconic, beautiful, tear-jerking, sweeping shot of the South Downs.
Click the picture to play clip [wmv file, 28 Mb]. And be very angry.

A Brighton shop window

A striking display, not least after recent events in Sudan.

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