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Rare Exports is an entertainingly mental film.

Indeed. He was the chef?? Oh well, it didn't stop Steven Seagal being badass in Under Siege.

One of the groups at this year's festival is gathering happy memories from the people of Brighton, as part of an ongoing project to map the happiness of the UK. So far they've got a single memory at the Amex, and nothing at all at Withdean or the Goldstone. I'm sure we can do better than this...

Wheel loose?

Just to be different, my heart says no (I'm a natural pessimist, and it's clear that from our inconsistent performances we don't deserve a play-off place) but my head says yes. Reading have been just as inconsistent as us (or they'd be more than a point ahead of us) and a quick skim of...

Someone put far too much thought into this and came up with a viewing order that I like the sound of: 4, 5, 2, 3, 6. This keeps the revelation at the end of 5 unspoiled, leaving it on the cliffhanger of Han in carbonite, then uses 2 and 3 as a kind of extended flashback to fill in Anakin's back...

My wife and I walked from Devil's Dyke (along the South Downs Way to Ditchling Beacon then dropping down to the Amex via Stanmer) for the Blackpool game last season. The weather was glorious, you get teasing glimpses of the stadium on the approach, we got to the WSU in time for two pints that...

Also something of a logistical challenge to move the 475 tons of metal. (Each 20p coin is 5g according to Wikipedia.)

I find it disturbing that the convergence on the authoritarian/right quadrant seems to be happening all around the world (although less so in democracies with more-proportional voting systems, where votes for smaller parties are less likely to be seen as "wasted"). If even the 2008 crash and...

I don't think the quote says anything about the libertarian-authoritarian axis. The sharing of wealth that it implies could be done voluntarily/collectively (which would usually imply a society in the "anarchism" area of the chart) or as heavy-handed gathering and redistribution by the state...

For those who're interested in where the UK political parties lie, the site politicalcompass.org uses a similar chart (Beware! Theirs is flipped so that Libertarian is at the bottom and Authoritarian at the top, so don't just map it onto the one that BadFish posted in this thread.) and produced...

I'm not sure there's a contradiction here. It must be easier for those who disagree with his politics (both those on the right who think he was deluded and those on the left who fear that his sort of talk could make them unelectable) to speak generously of Tony Benn the man when his views are so...

I'm paid for 7 hours but almost never work less than 8 and frequently it's 10+. On top of that I'm formally (i.e. paid to be) on call overnight every other week, such as tonight when I've been working since 5am (just having a quick break now on NSC). On top of that I'm informally (i.e. unpaid)...

For weekday evening games I usually get the 1727 from Victoria to Lewes and make it to Falmer with plenty of time for a pie and a pint (or two). So far Southern have said that London-Eastbourne services should be unaffected tomorrow... which I suspect is why there's a shortage of...

I thought it did quite well for a show that only made six episodes. I think it had the shortest run of any competitor in the tournament.

Not necessarily. Here's a blog that analyses general election results since 1945 with Scottish votes removed and shows that it rarely affects the overall result. We're actually in the rare position at the moment of living through one of those parliaments where Scottish votes counted: if Scotland...

Exactly that. Sorry, picture quality's appalling because it was a bit far away for my phone's camera but this is what I could see from Gatwick when I was kicked off my train this morning: What we were told was that it had blocked both the up lines when it broke down on the points. Southbound...

Do not want. If we're aiming to be PLR we need better than this.

As a big fan of The Bridge I had low expectations of a remake but it's actually worth giving a try. It sticks fairly closely to the plot and characters of the original, but with enough (sensible) changes and embellishments that there are some surprises. The casting is really good: like the...

Just one? Then it would have to be State Of Play. John Simm, David Morrissey, Polly Walker, Bill Nighy and Kelly Macdonald all on top, top form, playing great characters in a gripping story that has some real surprises without being twisty for the sake of it. It's also entertaining to see a...