Friday Night Movie number 59 – Rebecca
A good old classic for you all tonight with classy acting from Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine and Alfred Hitchcock’s inimitable directorial style. ‘Rebecca’ is…
Culture – includes movies
Friday Night Movie Number 58 – Behind Locked Doors
Tonight’s offering is a right little gem that I discovered recently. It’s a ‘B’ movie film noir about a private detective who, in an effort…
Friday Night Movie number 57 – A Canterbury Tale
Tonight’s offering is a quirky film by the great production team of Powell and Pressburger and is from 1944. A Canterbury Tale concerns people from…
Sky News on Rotherham: a report that owes more to artifice than to the concept of honest reporting.
I’ve just watched an extremely troubling report on Sky News about an alleged rise in ‘hate crime’, most of which is supposedly directed at Muslims….
A Happy Thanksgiving to all this blog’s many American readers
This blog although it mostly covers UK and European issues has a remarkable proportion of visitors from the United States of America. Therefore I’d like…
The British Muslim numbers game
The Sun newspaper’s front page yesterday, 23rd November, stating that a telephone poll of just over a thousand British Muslims had found that 1 in…
Friday Night Movie number 56 – The Wages of Fear
I was delighted to find that this film is, for the moment at least, available to view on a major video sharing site. This film…
‘Syrian’ refugees start arriving in the UK tomorrow. Beware the unmarked coaches that could be arriving in YOUR town.
With so much jihad going on around the world, surely the most stupid thing that any nation could do would be to allow in thousands…
Friday Night Movie Number 55 – The Echo Murders
Tonight’s offering is from 1945 and is a Sexton Blake detective tale about a string of grisly murders happening in and around a Cornish tin…
Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible
Posting may be light over the next few days as preparation work is done for an eventual upgrade to this blog The blog may therefore…
