Parasite: A Film for Our Times
- February 21, 2020
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- Matt
Donald Trump isn’t generally known for pronouncements on world cinema. But he and his fans seem to believe that he has the right to express even the most vapid opinions on everything, and given that Hollywood mostly despises him, it isn’t as surprising as it might seem at first sight to find the Emperor of...
Eugenics for Dummies
- February 19, 2020
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- Matt
There’s been a lot of talk about eugenics in the UK this last week, thanks to Dominic Cummings’s ‘superforecaster’ Andrew Sabisky. Sabisky’s rapid rise and fall is entirely due to the ‘controversial comments’, as the media likes to call them, that he made on various internet forums, including Cummings’s own blog. These pronouncements include the...
Brexit: Springtime for Racists
- February 03, 2020
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- Matt
For anyone seeking inspiration in these dark times, I recommend the moving Storyville documentary My Italian Secret: Italy’s Forgotten Heroes. It tells the story of the Italian cyclist Gino Bartali and the Italians who saved more than 10,000 Jews from Nazi extermination during World War 2, by hiding them or smuggling them to safety. Like...
Independence Day
- January 31, 2020
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- Matt
More than four years after the referendum that plunged the UK into what has been the most bitter and divisive political crisis in its history, we have finally reached the day that so many Brexiters have dreamed of and yearned for. For many of those who voted and campaigned to leave the European Union, today...
Chronicle of a Coup Foretold
- December 20, 2019
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- Matt
A week on, there is no way you can really look on the 2019 General Election that makes it feel any better than it did on the night. The bare facts speak for themselves. The single greatest concentration of conmen, chancers, fanatics and incompetents in British political history have been given a majority by the...
All Hail to the Monster
- September 26, 2019
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- Matt
Readers of this blog will probably know that I’m not a great fan of Boris Johnson. In fact it would be safe to say that I despise him as much as any British politician I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly why. It might be the constant...
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