Eschewing for one moment the spurious nature of Brexit negotiations, turning their attention briefly towards real matters of concern, the Conservative government this week chose to meddle in the housing market. And gloriously freed from having to keep up the pretence of any sort of plan, when it comes to real estate the Tories did what British governments do best, simply by…
When Ken Bone, looking comfortable in a chunky red cable-knit sweater with a handy zip, became an internet sensation after posing a question on energy policy towards the close of the second presidential debate, the whooping adulation and flurry of memes which followed were less inevitable than a hasty and spiteful backlash. For the record, Ken – a coal plant operator from…
Open mouthed as though awestruck, for several months now Nigel Farage has been ravenously fellating his United States counterpart Donald Trump. At a 15,000-strong rally in Jackson, Mississippi in August, Farage spoke to stimulate the Trump grassroots, suggesting that The Donald and his supporters could ‘smash the establishment’, and like a geyser the compliments continued to come. Trump portrayed Farage as…
We can pontificate on a history of Swedish police drama extending all the way back to Martin Beck in the late 1960s, and to the first iteration in the early 1990s of Kurt Wallander, lovingly portrayed by Rolf Lassgård. We can rush into headlong chatter about the contemporary wave of what has variously been described as ‘Scandi Crime’ and ‘Nordic Noir’….
More than twenty-two years after the release of Nas’s landmark debut studio album Illmatic, a controversial new study conducted by researchers at New York University has refuted one of the record’s major claims, concluding after months of painstaking tests and several near-death experiences that after all, we do need the occasional sleep. The study brought together leading academics from NYU’s schools of…
tell them she is enjoying the view of the moon a pink gossamer robe barely covering her body hanshin ni usukurenai no usumono no koromo matoite tsuki miru to ie 1906. Translation by Makoto Ueda.
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Is The Conjuring an apt title for this fairly prosaic but competently made supernatural horror? Who or what precisely is conjured? The demon Bathsheba – the name of the woman who in the Hebrew Bible was summoned by King David owing to her good looks, beginning a sordid tale of adultery and the early death by way of punishment of…
Goodness aren’t takeaways these days expensive! Time was that a takeaway meant nothing but battered balls full of some indistinguishable pork or other meat, a plastic bag bursting with prawn crackers, curry, poppadoms, and mango chutney, or else a pizza smothered in slices of pepperoni and cheese, which was usually pre-grated cheddar. Now thanks to newfangled high-end delivery services like…
Blithe or rabid comparisons to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party are never hard to come by in any walk of life, but when they’re not confined to internet forums and Twitter, recently in British politics they have been as much a preserve of the right. Take for instance the New Labour fanatic and prominent party donor Michael Foster, who after…
Gr-r-r—there go, my heart’s abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God’s blood, would not mine kill you! What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming? Oh, that rose has prior claims— Needs its leaden vase filled brimming? Hell dry you up with its flames! At the meal we sit together; Salve tibi! I must hear Wise talk…
