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Before I begin, a quick note for Michael – haven’t forgotten the post I mentioned, but it’s taking longer than I expected. It’s turned into one of those tricksy posts that just don’t want to be written, but I’ll endeavour to complete it.
For everyone else: I just received a rather intriguing email from a [...]

A couple of days ago, a friend of a friend on Facebook asked me about the reaction in the UK to the protests against US president Barack Obama. I had to tell him we found it quite perplexing; we’ve never had a prime minister subjected to such a degree of vitriol. It would be [...]

Apparently, there’s some cricket thing going on. Ordinarily, I would know nothing of this*, but, for some reason, people keep talking to me about it. I’m not entirely sure why, but am tempted to ask, is it ’cause I is English?. If it is, I hate to disabuse these people, but we don’t all [...]

Call me picky, but when I see a glaring error in a film it rather spoils the whole thing for me, and this is the case with the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.
I admit I’m not a fan of zombie films at the best of times, but this one was going along [...]