Understanding the viciousness of the anti-Corbyn tendency: shades of the Paris Commune

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Jeremy Corbyn, the BBC and the democratic process Why has Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour Party with a massive 59.5 per cent provoked more fury among the centre-left than the predations of the right which still overwhelm us? I’m bewildered by the preoccupation among good friends with diversions that have little to […]

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Heaven Sent Doctor Who episode satisfies this SF critic at last: five-star review

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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD It is always good to be brought into the light, even though it may take an age: better late than never. And so the theme of Heaven Sent, the penultimate episode in the latest series of Doctor Who, brings me to my knees in grateful awe. Heaven Sent knocked me off my

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Terminator Genisys review: a tragic thing to do to an old friend

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SPOILER ALERT!!! Oh the excitement as the Amazon package containing another 3D blu-ray movie drops through the door. This week it’s the fifth in the much-loved Terminator franchise, Terminator Genisys which I’ve had on order for weeks and which was at long last released on November 2nd. But yikes … After a promising start with

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Reggie Yates Race Riots USA review: white liberal Guardianista requires smelling salts

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Reggie Yates: Race Riots USA review BBC3 Tuesday 29 Sept 2015 There’s a lot of shark-jumping going on down Fleet Street. You may have observed the liberal press laying into the resurgence in progressive politics of late with a hysteria largely missing in action when it comes to the current assault on the poor, about

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Eggheads Against Jeremy Corbyn: right-wing academics phone it in to the FT

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It’s taken the right wing ages to muster 55 Jeremy Corbyn-bashing academics in the FT. (They include Alastair Milne, Professor of Economics at the University of Loughborough. Any relation to Seumas?) I hate to mock the afflicted but they really are flailing like punch-drunks and have tacked together an argument most of us can answer

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