Archives – 2006 – January – 23  

British Girls (okay, not Welsh) quite violent shocker
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— 23 Jan 2006 Pete Baran Comment

In a league table for under fifteen-year-old incidences of violence, English girls come fifth in the world and Scottish sixth. This assumes they did best in the quarter finals. Eastern Europe seems to lead the way with Hungary, Estonia and Lithuania […]

A Cock And Bull’s Paedophile Charter
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— 23 Jan 2006 Pete Baran Comment

Winterbottom’s Cock And Bull Story is, as you would expect from the director of Nine Songs, happily explicit when it comes to both bulls and cocks. And whilst the bulls come into it near the end the cocks are liberally peppered in the film. The[…]

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