Happy Diwali to all this blog’s Hindu readers and to all who celebrate this festival
There seem to be a surprising number of readers for this blog who come from India, the home of most of the world’s Hindu…
Culture – includes movies
Gab did nothing wrong except upset the moral oligarchy of Silicon Valley
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the free speech social media platform Gab did nothing wrong and indeed has had much wrong done to them….
Friday Night Movie 136 – The Two Headed Spy
I do like the actor Jack Hawkins. He was brilliant at playing archetypal British men and as many will be aware excelled as the…
Friday Night Movie number 135 – ‘Strongroom’
I discovered this 1962 gem recently and it is a great movie about a heist gone badly wrong. The plot of Strongroom concerns a…
Not politics now but a bit of old style radio anarchism – A brief look at The Laughing Policeman Wireless Society
As some may know or may have guessed from certain previous articles on the subject of dodgy Islamic community radio stations, that I have…
Friday Night Movie number 134 – Sleuth
Sorry that there has been an extended gap in the ‘Friday Night Movies’ as I have been busy with lots of other stuff including…
From Elsewhere: Top academic trolling
If you haven’t seen it before I’d strongly recommend that you check out the piece on Aero Magazine about ‘academic grievance studies’ and their…
Friday Night Movie number 133 – The Naked Edge
A brilliant thriller for you all this week with twists and turns aplenty. The Naked Edge, made in 1961 and starring Gary Cooper and…
Friday Night Movie number 132 – ‘Take My Life’
As we’ve had a lot of real life courtroom drama this week with the Tommy Robinson case, I thought that it was an appropriate…
Friday Night Movie 131 – ‘Home’
A real departure for the Friday Night Movie strand with something that isn’t a movie made for either the cinema or the television. Instead…
