THAT OVERWHELMING MANDATE IN VISUAL FORM
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What if? There are not enough “what if’s” in modern cinema. Sure there are plenty of “what if we put Kate Hudson in a rom com” questions being asked but the answers are so obvious they do not need to be tested*. Rather I[…]

If you’re somehow not yet sick of votes… the I Love Comics poll is now underway on that board.[…]

Grumpy Old Men
It’s the theocrats’ world now, so we’d better get used to it. Casting around for something historical to write about, I thought I’d begin at ‘the beginning’ – with the enormous claimed ages of […]

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
This must be the most obscure highly canonical novel. Or maybe just the most obscure such that I knew about – at least, since that poll of living Nobel laureates voting for the greatest books ever, which m[…]

TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
3: David Dimbleby Has The Attention Span Of A Gnat
This is all very BBC-centric I know, but after spending quite some time watching ITV calling it for Kerry against mounting evidence[…]

Dem Bones Dem Bones
Channel 4 to show footage of decomposing body – should be gruesomely intriguing.[…]

WE KILLED THE QUIZ
So a couple of weeks ago I remarked on our success finally at a pub quiz, at The Old Dairy. It had been a little bit unsatisfactory though (as Ben outlines here) so we wanted to go back and win again to make it official. So we turn[…]

TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
2: “Apparently they’re still voting in Ohio”
Anothe BBC favourite this, when things got a bit quiet they flashed over the the journo with the lime green jacket on i[…]

Did you miss this game?
Then you missed possibly the game of the season, amazing stuff, end to end at such a fast pace it made a typical premiership game look like a 7 inch single playing at 33 & 1/3. And to cap it all, a fantastic winning goal[…]