Having just watched the latest series of True Detective, we thought we'd catch-up with the earlier ones. Oh my, this is the absolutely beautiful theme tune to series one - I thought it was Johnny Cash or Roy Orbison at first!
I love RDZ, and think he is becoming an Albion legend, but he has not actually won any major trophies yet, and our league form has been somewhat erratic (mainly due to a spate of injuries to key players) this season so far, so I would be surprised if he was poached by a team of the calibre of...
Much as I absolutely loathe the charlatan - the 'cheeky chappy, man of the people' act is sickening (he doesn't really give a shit about ordinary working people except in so far as he can whip-up xenophobia for his own ends) - if Fartage was in the House of Commons, his hypocrisy and BS would be...
Yes, I've always been anti-Tory, because I see them as always on the side of the rich against ordinary people, on the side of bosses against workers, tax-dodgers against welfare claimants, and on the side of landlords against tenants.
Their repeated claims to be on the side of "ordinary decent...
When Reform UK and many on the Right of the Conservative Party are asked how they will pay for their policy pledges, the response is invariably "By stopping immigration."
When you then ask them how much immigration is costing, they mutter: "Er, don't know the actual figure, but it's too much...
1984 (Orwell)
Brave New World (Huxley)
Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
All about dystopian futures which now appear sadly to have arrived.
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Tressell) - published in 1915, about a group of impoverished cap-doffing workers who slavishly...
Was in The Basket Makers 4 times the week before last - on our annual visit to Brighton; rent a holiday house in the same street as the 'Baskets' each time we visit!