Have you ever had one of those moments when suddenly you realise you’ve been following the wrong rule book? You think you’re playing one game, but then you see you’re caught up in something very different? And maybe something much darker than you’d imagined. You’ve been pouring your energy, intellect or emotions into one task, […]
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Anna Chen – 16 March 2008 NOTE: CONTAINS SPOILERS This is a bit late but, due to some surprisingly hostile reactions to the Coen Brothers’ latest feature film, No Country For Old Men, I’ve decided to expand my comments at Louis P’s. Bloggers have been vitriolic about the movie, accusing it of a range of
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The challenge: to tell the story of the tragic demise of the Respect party through satire and vulgar abuse of the literary classics or whichever other cultural medium floats your boat. Anyone uninterested in the ins and outs of the far left look away now. Today I am mostly quoting John Milton and Paradise Lost,
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