Good King David’s Dowry

30 Aug

A claim frequently made by illegal Zionist settlers in the Occupied Territories is that the land is theirs by the deed of entitlement also known as the Bible. Well you can’t say fairer than that, now can you? This from … Read More »

Madders on Hawking on Hunt …

19 Aug

Professor Stephen Hawking has rattled Jeremy Hunt’s cage alright. As in rattled it enough for Hunt to forget that no good ever came from mixing it with a walking talking National Treasure. It’s a hiding to nothing. Did he not … Read More »

TV Review: Broken

2 Jul

Michael would you fuck me? Eh? You heard. [long pause] I can’t .. [long pause] .. I can’t. I’m sure it would be a wonderful experience, Roz. But I can’t. What Roz Demichel, forty-five year old mother of three, is proposing … Read More »

The Handmaid’s Tale

29 May

[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end]‘Best thing you’ll watch all year’, insists Guardian critic Sam Wollaston apropos last night’s opener. I doubt it, for all it stars an Elisabeth Moss who played Peggy to perfection in Mad Men. She wasn’t too bad as Robin … Read More »

Film Review: The Handmaiden

19 Apr

But for its thoroughly (post) modern approach to temporal sequencing, the Handmaiden could be placed squarely within the Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights tradition of storytelling, not least for its sexual explicitness and moral point scoring. Set in early twentieth … Read More »

Marathon!

10 Apr

Sheffield, yesterday, in pictures. [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end]