An excellent summary. Can I add the following? I can't remember where I found this (might have been in a report on the 2005 General Election) but I have an...
I see that Film4 are promoting a season of British films over the next few weeks. They are showing AMOLAD on Thursday and BN on Friday and could well be ...
There's some good stuff but I'm not sure there's anything new to Film4. Also some good stuff on More 4 (it seems that films get shown a few times on Film4...
I think I would agree with Mark here – the 60s/70s wilderness years look to me more like a fashion thing than a political thing – teenagers reacting...
... Hi Barbara, I'll try. It's all to do with terrestial v satellite and changing from analogue to digital TV. (Terrestial = broadcast from ground-based...
... And how much credence would you put on that? Would you give a true answer if stopped in the street by a pollster and asked for your political leaning (if...
Will anybody be in or near Buenos Aires in April? Thelma tells me that the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival will be honouring Michael &...
... Hi, Tom, This may be an interesting cultural difference. I would delight in telling the pollster not only the why of my politics but also why I made a...
Exactly, even with one of their characters claiming to be "Conservative by nature, Labour by experience" I haven't seen anything in their work or writing to...
Those of you yet privileged to meet Barbara will soon understand why she would be more than willing to give perfect strangers her time. And more than. Does...
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Thank you Mark and Paul. This is exactly the type of discussion I was trying to stimulate. So much more interesting than what's on the telly this week. After...
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If that's the type of discussion you were trying to stimulate, why didn't you? Instead you antagonised people by accusing anything you didn't like of being...
They are all national dailies. Randy Wrote: Does London really have eight, count 'em eight, newspapers? They can't all be dailies! [Non-text portions of this...
There aren't just eight daily newspapers in London, all of those listed in that survey are national papers. London also has the Evening Standard and the free...
Didn't Churchill sanction the use of poison gas against the Kurds in the '20s? Or is that a foul calumny? Steve Crook wrote: Churchill was a great war leader...
Not a calmny, see http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHU407A.html He was also a fan of shooting British people in the street that dared to take part in the...
... Thanks for these good words, Randy. I suppose the truth may be that I'm a daft American in spilling to a reporter as opposed to Tom R. As anyone who has...
Re the 80s rediscovery I remember it being led in London by Time Out and City Limits listing magazines. They were both notionally left or radical in their...
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Yes , I agree but I do find PT old fashioned . Its a 40s film made in the 60s Did Colin Macinnes ever have any thing to say about it? _____ From:...
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You have to know the left in the UK in the 60s to understand it It was culturally Stalinist and puritan. For example, it really struggled with 60s pop music,...
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They may have written about them positively, but I think saying that they led the revival is misleading...as is saying it was an '80's thing. What really...
Also some interesting giveaways in the Mirror (which I can haul back on topic by pointing out that in The Captive Heart, Pnp fave Michael Redgrave was said to...
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