Friday Night Movie Number 77 – Dangerous Afternoon
A nice little British crime thriller with a very strong female lead cast and based on a play by Gerald Anstruther. Miss Letty Frost…
Culture – includes movies
Friday Night Movies Number 76 – The Lost Hours
An interesting little British movie for this week’s selection. The Lost Hours stars Jean Kent and it is about a famous American test pilot…
Blogging from the Hay Festival 2016 -David Aaronovitch gives the Christopher Hitchens Memorial Lecture.
On Friday the 3rd June I had the pleasure to attend the Christopher Hitchens Memorial Lecture which this year was being given by David Aaronovitch…
Brexit -The Movie
I didn’t feel a sense of urgency to see ‘Brexit the Movie’ the crowdfunded documentary about the iniquities, corruption, anti-democratic structure, fraud and incompetance of…
Friday Night Movie Number 75 – Thru Different Eyes.
A murder mystery film for you all tonight with one murder, two confessions and a third person awaiting hanging for the killing. It’s an…
From Elsewhere: Why freedom of speech is important and why we should be concerned when it is under attack.
An excellent article from the Economist with the title ‘Free speech under attack’. In it the author states why the right to free speech is…
I also stand with hate speech.
There has been a worrying but long expected up tick in the suppression of non-Leftist or counter-Islam views on social media. The agreement between big…
Blogging from the Hay Festival 2016 – How decadent and depraved were the early Roman emperors?
If you’ve been brought up with the impressive BBC adaptation of Robert Graves ‘I, Claudius’ then you will have been left with the distinct…
Guest Post . Blogging from the Hay Festival 2016 – Talking about the subject of talking
Here is a guest post from ‘The Ubiquitous Librarian’, someone who has guest posted on here before, about one of the talks they attended at…
Blogging from the Hay Literary Festival 2016. AC Grayling – The Age of Genius.
Occasionally I’m lucky enough to be able to get to the Hay Festival and hear various authors, politicos and thinkers put their point of view…
