When words lose their power.
Way back in 2016 I wrote on the Fahrenheit211 site about how the word ‘racist’ had been overused and inappropriately used to such an…
Culture – includes movies
Weekend Movie – ‘Door To Door Maniac’
This week’s Weekend Movie is a heist movie with a bit of a difference. It stars Country music legend Johnny Cash as an experienced…
Weekend Movie – ‘Wrong Number’
‘Wrong Number’ is a short, tightly written British crime drama movie from 1959. I won’t give you any spoilers but the plot revolves around…
Weekend Movie – ‘Foxhole In Cairo’
A great little wartime spy story for you all this week. ‘Foxhole In Cairo’ (1960) is about an attempt by the Germans to get…
Not the weekend movie. ‘No Road Back’ 1957.
This one should have gone up on Friday but mandatory day off, a religious festival and family duties stopped this from happening so here…
Weekend Movie – The Great Van Robbery.
We travel back to 1959 for this gritty crime thriller about the robbery of a Royal Mint van of £150,000 which is a large…
Scott Cheggs’s very British humour.
Humour varies from person to person and varies even more so from country to country and culture to culture. American humour sometimes baffles me…
More murky people connected to NHS Fife
Like many I’ve been following the case of the Scottish nurse Sandie Peggie who is being hauled over the coals in a tribunal after…
Surprising but welcome news about apostasy in Islam.
I suppose I’ll have to say it for all the new readers here but I’ve been saying it for years on blogposts, social media…
What next for ‘Glaston-berg’? A virtual performance by an AI ghost of Hitler perhaps?
Over the years I’ve managed to acquire a bit of a distaste for the Middle Class Left (MCL) in Britain. I’ve come to this…
