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Puttnam
I’m so pleased to see that Lord Puttnam is still keeping up his stand on the Communications Act.
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Berlusconi
Berlusconi really doesn’t mess around does he. Unsurprisingly, he’s not all that popular around much of Europe and so didn’t get quite the reception he would have wanted at the European Parliament. But causing a major diplomatic incident on day two of his presidency was certainly going it some. I think we’ve been fairly quiet…
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Cycling in Bruges
If you happen to be in Bruges and are looking for something to do, I can thoroughly recommend going on a cycling tour with Jos from Quasimundo. But get there early for the big men’s bikes!
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Bringing Up Baby
With print deadlines being very early, Andrew Collins would not have learnt of the death of Katharine Hepburn when he penned this week’s “Bigger Picture” in the Radio Times. He’s chosen Bringing Up Baby, which as I said the other day, I love. A nice piece (not online as far as I can see) detailing…
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Spam
It’s this kind of story that really annoys me about spam. Yes it’s terrible. Yes children should not be seeing it. Yes ISPs, when asked, should have some kind of spam filtering available. But, no, it’s not the ISPs fault. I get pissed off with marketing phone calls, but I don’t directly blame BT. Someone…
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Straight to Hell
A couple of weeks ago I picked up a copy of Total DVD magazine – in the main because it had a complete copy of Alex Cox’s film Straight to Hell. I rushed out for my 3.99 copy of the magazine and disc. Well it turns out that although Alex Cox didn’t know about this,…
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Katherine Hepburn
Sadly Katherine Hepburn has died at the age of 96. She’s easily one of my favourite actresses of all time. Films such as Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and Woman of the Year from the thirties and forties are just wonderful. Then there were all the films with Spencer Tracey. CNN has a nice…
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Alistair Campbell v BBC
Well this story just goes on and on, and I really don’t like it. I watched the Channel 4 News interview via the net (being otherwise engaged on Friday night). The story runs and runs, and I really hope that the BBC stay with it. The government should not be dictating the stories that the…
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Communications Bill
I can’t believe that the government have been so stupid over this bill. Yesterday, the Lords massively defeated the government.
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Spooks
While some might have quite enjoyed last night’s episode, it was pretty obvious where the episode was going from the outset, and even knowledge that the series is not afraid to kill off major cast members is not enough to prevent the resolution being obvious from some way off. I’m led to believe that this…
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A Wild Sheep Chase
I must admit that it’s taken me a bit longer than usual to work through this particualr Murakami book. Without checking, I’m not quite sure where in the oeuvre this fits, but it truly is a wild “sheep” chase. It involves a typical Murakami protaganist, a small-time publisher, who’s dragged into a neverworld built around…
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Communications Bill
There was a fantastic piece by Steve Barnett in yesterday’s Observer talking about the forthcoming Communications Bill, and the various parts of it that the government simply haven’t been able to defend so far. I really do hope that the House of Lords sort the government out over this. This coming week should really sort…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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