Remember
‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon 1914 With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of…
Culture – includes movies
Tommy Robinson – He’s really wrong on this one. I disagree with him vehemently on this particular issue.
The citizen journalist, British rights activist and bete noir of the British political and media Establishment Tommy Robinson has recently been on a trip…
Weekend Movie – The Spy In Black.
As some may well have noticed from this blog’s Friday Night/Weekend Movie strand that I have a liking for British war films. Mostly these…
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…
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…
