So what do we think? Will this save Labour and by extention the UK?

Or is it just the first step in another game of musical chairs in which we get a handful of successive Prime Ministers trying to survive in the chaos?

Anybody taking bets?

I just watched the British-Nigerian movie “My Father’s Shadow” (that was in the running at Cannes last year) for work. During the nineties, a father travels to Lagos with his sons; he wants to collect salaries that he’s owed there. At the same time, there’s political hupheaval because there are democratic elections (that will…Read more

But no, I am – as before – giving you as honest an assessment as I can. I think quite a lot of people today, and you amongst them, are driven to emotional extremes because that’s what the algorithm wants. And the emotional extreme that it’s aiming for in your case in justice not being…Read more

I just reread the book and that’s not what the film is going to be. It’s a comic book about genocide and about how a super-super-powered being like Supergirl deals with the horrors of that. Not the kind of thing you’ll see with a major superhero movie.

I am confident that it’ll be good fun, though.

(Which is also why there’s really no such thing as stealing an idea when it comes to…Read more

It’s funny that these days, an indie comic gets made into a TV show and we don’t even talk about it here. World’s a different place.

At least I can’t say I’d be very interested in that, personally. I’ve seen enough of those.

I am sure I will watch it at some point when it’s available to stream. I liked Pig, and this sounds like it’ll be an interesting experience at the least.

Lots of problematic stuff in there. There’s also some interesting perspectives, but there’s no excuse for the statements quoted in the Telegraph and…Read more

Man, I hate this one. How can Anthony Head by dead when I just was utterly impressed by how great and fit he was looking on Ted Lasso?!

Okay then. One last time, with feeling:

It depends on what your understanding of integration. If you equate this with “full assimilation”, then no, that won’t happen. But it doesn’t need to. Not everybody has to enjoy sauerkraut and bratwurst and pray to Jesus to fully be…Read more

Look, two things about this:
– For one, you are looking at newspaper and TV reports and the like that by their very nature focus on stories that are about
conflict. I work at a school, remember? The vast majority of kids you’ll talk to are just kids growing up here. Yes, different lives at home to some extent…Read more

Well, yes, and there are people who have carefully examined the reasons for this and…Read more

As churches close down, it’s also clear that they don’t fulfill the vital function they once had: Bringing the people of a community together to see each other once a week, to have a chat, to feel closer to the people living around you. This was a very important thing,…Read more

It’s almost as if we’ve built an unsustainable economic system that we’re now trapped in until it has killed us all.

I remember seeing Crash back then. I did like it, but I was disappointed at the same time (because I kind of expected more, after the more obviously surreal mindfucks of Videodrome and Naked Lunch).

God, I really want to see Backrooms, but I probably won’t be able to catch it in the theatre.

So, I don’t know, I couldn’t tell you a thing about the first movie anymore, but like I…Read more

(This topic was also in the…Read more

What Ben said.

Or, this:

We live in a world in which a tiny number of people own too, too much. And while there’s a recession going on…Read more

The way this went tells you everything you need to know about corporations.

Anyways, I definitely knew that smoking was unhealthy and so did people who were in their teens in the eighties and seventies. So the cutoff point would be somewhere between 70 and 80 I guess, but if you’re 80 and…Read more

Fuck yeah! Me for the win!

(This was part of a discussion about a BBC/Netflix thing in 2018, nothing to do with Nolan…Read more