Sometimes a thing is true even if George Orwell says it’s true. Old grudges die hard; Stalinists still hate George (not Galloway) while ‘decents’ claim him for their own. My fellow blogging longlister in the Orwell Prize, Dave Osler, has posted a defence of Gorgeous. And I guess that’s my cue to do likewise with […]
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Has anyone else stumbled across the Bravo cable TV show, 1,000 Ways To Die? It’s a sweet little offering from the US, re-enacting the weirdest ways people have met their end — usually prime contenders for the Darwin Awards. I’m sitting here squirming having just watched the fate of the scumbag robber who stole groceries
1000 Ways To Die review: lurid, shocking, gruesome TV Read More »
What’s wrong with this headline? Chinese and Indian pupils get more top grades at GCSE than British children The Daily Mail does it again. In an article that’s supposed to prove Chinese and Indian kids are high in Geek Factor when it comes to exams, Laura Clark effectively says that UK Chinese and Indians living,
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Rather belatedly, I’m posting a review of Tim Burton’s 3D movie adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. Being a sucker for the technology (especially now that you get proper stylish Rayban-style spectacles and not the horrid — if nostalgic — cardboard face-wear of old), I had gone to see Alice the first week it opened at
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May I just say, “Blimey!”? I’ve just heard from the organisers of The Orwell Prize that I’ve made the longlist in the Blog category. “They are awarded to the book, the journalism and the blogposts which are judged to have best achieved George Orwell’s aim to ‘make political writing into an art’.” When I submitted
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I want a dog! Hat-tip Popbitch Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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