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Strike!
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— 24 Jan 2004 Tom Comment

Strike!: C4’s documentary on the Miners’ Strike was entertaining. I’m not sure if a docu on the strike should have been entertaining, but there you go – as a primer it pretty much worked (I was 11 in 1984 and the strike took p[…]

Very interesting post
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— 24 Jan 2004 Tom Comment

Very interesting post about machismo and ‘favourite films’. I don’t like those films either, not so much singly but as Kathleen says presented as a group, a way of filmmaking, a canon if you like. I’m not sure it’s the p[…]

Water on Mars is
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— 24 Jan 2004 mark sinker Comment

Water on Mars is not news, especially… James Lovelock – who worked for NASA developing techniques for testing planetary atmospheres, and comparing Mars with Venus and Earth – argues that you can tell if life exists on a planet by ta[…]

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