Stories By Jem Bloomfield

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 6
March 6, 2026The scenario is a brilliant way of watching each figure respond in almost laboratory conditions, offering...

Sports
Game of the Week: Tennessee vs Alabama — The View from England
March 5, 2026His whole appearance is so overpoweringly wholesome and plucky, he so powerfully exudes the air of...

Television
Game of the Week: Oklahoma vs. Notre Dame — The View from England
March 3, 2026But seeing the mascot of the “Fighting Irish” always makes me blench slightly, I think because...

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 7
March 2, 2026A high-speed mincing Malcolm and a Malcolm collapsing back onto the cushions of a taxi marked...

Movies & TV
Game of the Week: LSU vs. Mississippi State — The View from England
February 27, 2026After last week’s loss to the Crimson Tide, LSU’s Tigers might have felt they had something...

Sports
Game of the Week: Stanford vs. Oregon — The View from England
February 24, 2026So that was a touch unexpected. The Ducks, used to clocking up around 55 points per...

Theatre
Theatre Review: John Lithgow Stars in The Magistrate, The National Theatre, London
February 10, 2026Except of course Cis isn’t advanced for his age: when his mother married Posket, she eased...

Dance
Dance Review: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
February 9, 2026Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work. Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the...

Theatre
Less Than Kind by Terence Rattigan: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England.
October 30, 2025It’s Rattigan’s attempt to take the basic Hamlet situation and write a play which is both...

Theatre
Neighbourhood Watch by Alan Ayckbourn. Pre-West End Tour.
October 27, 2025Neighbourhood Watch never feels like an “issue” play, but the London riots, the increasingly draconian Law...














