The iniquity of the UK train operators’ stranglehold on a captive traveller since the botched 1993 privatisation, when a patchwork of mini-monopolies replaced the monolithic British Rail is well-documented. The network itself – tracks, stations, signals, overhead electric cables and all the costly stuff needed to run a railway – collapsed accordingly and was taken [...]
Category Archives: Cinema
Ahoy there me hearties…
November 24, 2008 – 9:55 am
Pirates are suddenly everywhere: Indian Navy sinks Pirate Ship, Somali Pirates Hijack Saudi Oil Tanker: Cadbury’s Old Jamaica chocolate bar futures are set to surge. Why the sudden interest? Piracy is not new. Nor is this revival of interest so ephemeral either. We have had quite a few Pirates of the Caribbean to contend with [...]
God in one ear, Cheney in the other. "W" The Movie.
November 17, 2008 – 8:17 pm
George W Bush comes off lightly in the new biopic, ‘W’ to the dismay of pinko liberals everywhere. Oliver Stone was scripted to serve up a tale of a neocon Golem, spoiled rich son of a former CIA Director turned one-term President whose legacy was that he did not annex Iraq. He fixed the polls in [...]
Do you think I would leave you dying?
November 16, 2008 – 3:11 pm
YES . . . . if you were Bobby Sands or the seven other 1981 IRA hunger strikers. This 1979 BBC clip aimed to show that the Iron Lady was an old softy at heart. Mrs Thatcher on Two Little Boys achieves the opposite effect. Not quite as harrowing as Hunger, the first feature from [...]