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The Responder, Series 1 (BBC, 2022)

The Real Cops of Liverpule...hard-boiled, foul-mouthed, on the front line of the 'war' on drugs. The main character in this first series is dealing with being...

The numbers don't lie: Trump's share of the vote in his own party is lower than it was in 2020 -this suggests to me there is no way he can win the popular vote, and that he can only win the Electoral...

"Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation that allows more options to challenge election results while also restricting the options for voting.The Republican governor signed bills into law that...

Kristi Kreme: one bite and it's not just your teeth that ache. How desperate are these people to kiss Trump's 'ring'..?

The Kristi Noem and Kim Jong Un Controversy, Explained | TIME

In to the Abyss steps Nigel Biggar, writing in the Telegraph. An Oxford Professor who has written a controversial book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2024) which I have not read, Biggar titles his...

"Stormy Daniels later said Donald Trump told her she reminded her of his daughter Ivanka"...

(must be 'reminded him'?)

Hail to the Beast!

"Daniel was asked whether they ran into each other again at the tourament. She said that they did, in one of the gift rooms.
"Like I mentioned, every party came through, there’s so many photos of...

Thanks. I once read some ballot papers are very large and they can be inserted into a machine, like a casino fruit machine, and you can select 'All' and pull a level or do something else for some...

Something puzzles me about the US election system. Am I right in thinking that a ballot paper is a single sheet of paper with all of the candidates standing for election for multiple posts: that is:...

Coming soon (but probably not to a cinema near you) -documentary about Tara Emory

The End of Wonderland review – trans porn star deals with eviction and a hoarding crisis | Film | The Guardian

I don't know if it is just in the UK, but reality tv has been dubbed a 'theatre of cruelty'. In many such shows, the audience is invited to react with ridicule, amusement and so on, but the...

Who are the National Conservatives? | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine

Yesterday in the thread on Israel, I posted a video by Melanie Phillips. At the National Conservative conference in Brussels last month, among other things she attacked what she called the...

Below is a link to a speech Melanie Phillips gave to the National Conservative Conference in Brussels last month.

I remember when MP was a feminist and vaguely on the left of British politics,...

Had not heard of the film All About the Money before. Looked it up on imdb and this is the review on the first page-

"Not a great story and not a great script. Relies heavily on profanity,...

Rotten Tomatoes’ 300 Best Movies of All Time | Rotten Tomatoes

This list is compiled from reader's reviews, which is why it has little or nothing to do with Film as either art or entertainment,...

Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997).

This aired on Film4 the other night, and though I have watched parts of it before this was the first time I watched it all the way through. It is rubbish,...

The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier (1974).

Has anyone read this? I have not,

It is one of the most consistently banned books in the USA, because they were banning books long before DeSantis...

I tend to think in terms of parallel lines characterising a lot of the conflict since the first Aliyah in 1880. The settlers were astounded to find Arabs living and working where they expected a...

I think a lot might depend on now the left is defined, particularly in the US. This study, while flawed, documents the twists and turns of ideas and political activism in the US. I would like to...

Anthony Blinken is trying to put a positive spin on his current visit to the Middle East, but it is gloom and doom in Gaza. For

""Hamas wants clear terms for the unconditional return of...

Tucker Carlson out of his depth and bewildered by the philosophical ideas of Aleksandr Dugin, described as 'Putin' Brain', but a man who conjures up out of the 'Anglo-Saxon World' (!) a new...

All three episodes are now available for streaming in the UK -I don't know if it can be viewed outside the country- this is the link

Miriam: Death of a Reality Star - Series 1: Episode 1 | Channel...

If you are in need of some light laughter this Monday morning, ponder the backroom efforts of a few -and I think it is a few- 'radicals' who want to replace Sunak with Penny (The Diver) Mordaunt...

Fair point. I have no problem in Bardland so can't explain it.