My Oxford neighbours can’t understand why I left the Netherlands
February 27, 2020
We’re back. After eight-and-a-half years in Amsterdam the Thomas family has returned to Blighty, although for the girl of 12 and the boy of...
Nick Thomas
Christmas quiz
December 19, 2019
The following questions are presented as crossword clues. Some, including the one that appears three times, have more than one possible answer, some are...
Christmas Quiz
December 20, 2018
This light-hearted entertainment involves 13 clues whose solutions, when rearranged, lead to an answer consisting of two seasonal lines. It will probably work best...
Nick Thomas: When sprogs become luvvies
September 27, 2018
At the age of 10, after a string of parts in church Nativity plays and school musicals, my daughter decided to sign up for...
Nick Thomas: The new anathema
June 21, 2018
English language drama is a bit thin on the ground here in Amsterdam, though there is clearly a demand for it, because Orange Theatre’s...
Nick Thomas: My fiction was stranger than the truth
February 22, 2018
In 2001 I enjoyed modest success on the London Fringe with my first play, Dancing Bears, a comedy in which a (fictionalised Old Labour)...
Nick Thomas: What’s behind the new censorship?
January 4, 2018
Whenever some noxious, malign social fashion starts grabbing headlines on a daily basis and elicits loud harrumphing at the breakfast tables of the shires,...
Larry David and the pain of laughing
December 11, 2014
Curb Your Enthusiasm is still the best television comedy of this century
My Oxford neighbours can’t understand why I left the Netherlands
February 27, 2020
We’re back. After eight-and-a-half years in Amsterdam the Thomas family has returned to Blighty, although for the girl of 12 and the boy of...
Christmas quiz
December 19, 2019
The following questions are presented as crossword clues. Some, including the one that appears three times, have more than one possible answer, some are...
Christmas Quiz
December 20, 2018
This light-hearted entertainment involves 13 clues whose solutions, when rearranged, lead to an answer consisting of two seasonal lines. It will probably work best...
Nick Thomas: When sprogs become luvvies
September 27, 2018
At the age of 10, after a string of parts in church Nativity plays and school musicals, my daughter decided to sign up for...
Nick Thomas: The new anathema
June 21, 2018
English language drama is a bit thin on the ground here in Amsterdam, though there is clearly a demand for it, because Orange Theatre’s...
Nick Thomas: My fiction was stranger than the truth
February 22, 2018
In 2001 I enjoyed modest success on the London Fringe with my first play, Dancing Bears, a comedy in which a (fictionalised Old Labour)...
Nick Thomas: What’s behind the new censorship?
January 4, 2018
Whenever some noxious, malign social fashion starts grabbing headlines on a daily basis and elicits loud harrumphing at the breakfast tables of the shires,...
Larry David and the pain of laughing
December 11, 2014
Curb Your Enthusiasm is still the best television comedy of this century
