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The Ultimate Christmas Movie
Let’s face it, Puffins. For those of you either still tied to the TV license or have a predilection towards masochism, the broadcasters are going to throw a bucket of cheesy as arse Christmas movies [more…]
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Film Review: Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers (1959) marked his transition from writing juvenile pulp science fiction to serious novels of ideas, in this case setting forth a highly reactionary and militarist political philosophy. Paul Verhoeven’s [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 10th December 2020 Panel: Robert Buckland (Conservative) Wes Streeting (Labour) Malcolm Turnbull (Former Australian PM) Julia Hartley-Brewer (Broadcaster) Anand Menon (Politics professor) Venue: Chelmsford Firstly, your humble author your award-winning author must thank [more…]
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Film Review: Withnail & I
Withnail & I (1987) is a masterpiece of British dark-comic satire written and directed by actor, novelist, and screenwriter Bruce Robinson, who went on to write and direct How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989), [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 3rd December 2020 Panel: Michelle Donelan (Conservative) Sarah Jones (Labour) Peter Openshaw (Immunologist) Tom Kerridge (Chef) Liam Halligan (Economist) Venue: Bath The first, lengthy, question can be summarised thus: So much for the [more…]
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A Christmas Movie that reflects 2020
As a very strange Christmas swings around, we’ll soon start to see a plethora of Yuletide films appear on television. From the great and the good (films like The Bishop’s Wife and It’s a Wonderful [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 26th November 2020 Panel: Nadim Zahawi (Conservative) Vaughan Gething (Labour) Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) Claire Fox (Member of the House of Lords) Tanni-Grey Thompson (Paralympian) Venue: Swansea Your humble author is forced to [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 19th November 2020 Panel: James Cleverly (Conservative) Emily Thornberry (Labour) Ian Blackford (SNP) Rose Hudson-Wilkin (Bishop of Dover) Fraser Nelson (Editor and columnist) Venue: Windsor An all blue Fiona Bruce took the first [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 12th November 2020 Panel: Matt Hancock (Conservative) David Lammy (Labour) Robin Shattock (Immunologist) Merryn Somerset Webb (Commentator) Rosie Jones (Comedian) Venue: Dover At the end of last week’s Question Time, Fiona Bruce announced [more…]