Happy Thanksgiving 2018 to all this blog’s many American readers
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my many readers in the United States of America a very happy and joyful Thanksgiving,…
Culture – includes movies
Friday Night Movie number 138 – ‘For Them That Trespass’
This week’s Friday Night Movie offering is ‘For Them That Trespass’ a bleak crime drama from 1949 starring Stephen Murray and Richard Todd, who…
Friday Night Movie number 137 – George Orwell’s ‘1984’
For this week’s filmic interlude, that I put up whilst I have a 25 hours break from politics and stuff, really needs no introduction…
Men – Do you want to hang onto your junk? Then don’t visit Burkina Faso
The You Tube commentator Sargon of Akkad has for a while now been running a series entitled ‘All cultures are beautiful’. It is a…
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…
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…
