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Great Articles in Today’s Guardian
There were a couple of fascinating articles in today’s Guardian. Firstly, the cover story of G2 looked at the amount of coverage given to the Space Shuttle explosion in comparison with other stories about peoples’ deaths. All the US networks carried lots of live stories about the story on Saturday, pre-empting usual programming. I must…
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Hyde Park Being Used
Finally the Stop the War March is allowed to use Hyde Park as a meeting point.
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Columbia
Tragically the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost on Saturday, and the inevitable recrimonations have begun. There have been the inevitable calls for the termination of the manned space programme. But this seems unduly reactionary, and one hopes that the accident will be carefully studied and any mistakes made, remedied. Overall the Shuttle has proved to…
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In A Dry Season
The book chain Ottakers occassionally runs special 99p promotions on novels to introduce you to a new series. So I picked up In A Dry Season by Peter Robinson as a result of one of these promotions. It’s one of a long series of Inspector Banks novels, and very good it was too. I must…
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Donnie Darko
What an excellent little film this is. I missed it in the cinema but a chance to get the DVD for six quid including postage was too good an offer to miss, and it proved to be excellent. I won’t even bother going into the plot too much, but it puts the likes of A…
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Jackass: The Movie
Oh dear. Free tickets etc., so I went along, and in parts it was quite fun. But overall I’m not sure about the whole thing. The series is pretty juvenile, and if it continued much more (I think they’ve pretty much stopped producing it now), would surely result in either a major accident or fatality.…
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24 is Back!
16 February is the date in my diary for series 2 of this fun drama. Can’t wait.
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LBC Media Show
I haven’t listened to an awful lot of LBC 97.3 FM since it relaunched and switched frequencies with it’s AM rolling news sister station. One show that does warrant listening to is Brian Hayes and Matt Wells Sunday afternoon media show. Two hours between 1.00 and 3.00pm every week – it’s pretty thorough in its…
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Wynton Marsalis in the Snow
A very long day has just about ended. Starting with a five o’clock taxi for RAJAR (down basically – thanks for asking). Later on, the weather took a turn for the worse, and by the time it came to the highlight of my day, a Barbican concert given by the aforementioned and the Lincoln Center…
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Protest Blocked from Hyde Park
Now this really isn’t clever. The planned march in London in February 15, against war in Iraq, has been told that it can’t end in Hyde Park where a rally was planned. Upwards of 500,000 are expected, and so obviously it will need to end somewhere. The reason given is that the park is not…
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Pepys Diary
A fantastic new website is putting Pepys Diary on the net in the form of a blog, posting it on a day by day basis. The really clever part of this proposition (which might take ten years to complete at a day by day rate) is that readers can annotate the entries themselves to help…
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Five is the new Channel 4
Last night Five had the start of the new series of CSI and later Boomtown. The former is tried and tested, and very interesting, with its Miami spinoff this weekend. From the first episode of the latter, I couldn’t say. The cast is very strong, but whether the complex narative structure can be kept up…
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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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