Radio Clash Podcast (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Followers of my Twitter and Livejournal will know I wrote to Glenda Jackson, my MP about the stupid ‘3 strikes’ rule that EU (not just UK apparently) are trying to pass with the Digital Economy bill, where if you’re caught 3 times filesharing they can cut off your internet. Thinking ‘I don’t fileshare’ or ‘I [...]
mosses from an old manse (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Glenda Jackson, 1968, from interesting film blog Verdoux
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A new analysis of how many graduates there are living in each Westmister Parliamentary constituency shows that five of the seven seats with the highest proportion of graduates amongst their working age population have Liberal Democrat MPs. The figures, from the University and College Union, show that overall 29% of the working population have degrees with [...]
Quigley (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Who is General McChrystal? By Bernie Quigley - for The Hill on 10/12/09 Is General McChrystal a believer in the Christian Apocalypse in Jerusalem like Preacher John Hargee and the 700 Clubs’ Pat Robertson? At the beginning of the war on Iraq a few New York rabbis tried to warn us about this but few listened. Today the web site Jews on First is a useful watchdog on this issue. But we know almost...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Top price tickets to Morecombe only £25 for performances between 9-16 December if you book before 31 October*.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Would you please reinstate Wirral . Traditionally a part of Cheshire, mentioned in the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , and a port long before Liverpool was a twinkle in any voyager's eye, sadly the 1970s found our small peninsula abruptly switched into the ersatz Merseyside . And now your newspaper appears deliberately to omit all reference to Wirral. In a recent Let's Move To...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
photos: oliver reed and glenda jackson from the amazing film 'women in love'/john garfield and lana turner in 'the postman always rings twice'/unknown
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Howard Barker the wellregarded author of Scenes From An Execution has accused the Arts Council of pursuing a "Stalinist" agenda after it cut the grant for the theatre company he established.
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
As previously tipped (See The Goss::E8831252405126, 8 Sep 2009), Morecambe, the Fringe First-winning one-man tribute to the late comedian Eric Morecambe, will transfer to the West End for a limited season. It will play at the Duchess Theatre for a si...
Stephen Mold's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Very Interesting Article in the Times. Confirming that Derby North will be pivotal in the Conservatives forming the next Government at the general Election. Landslide win for Conservatives may bury Labour’s big names Some of Labour’s best-known MPs, including Margaret Beckett and Jacqui Smith as well as ten ministers, are predicted to lose their seats in the event of a landslide election...
POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Sandra Parshall Jane Austen takes time off from writing to track down criminals. Queen Elizabeth I skulks around castles and manor houses in search of conspirators and killers. Leonardo da Vinci solves crimes in 15th century Italy, assisted by his apprentice Dino, who then record s their adventures jus t as Watson chronicled the exploits of Sherlock Holmes. Dante Alighieri has turned sleuth, Oscar...
The Edmondson Blog (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Glenda Jackson has the face to launch a thousand dredgers.Jack de ManioDiana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.John SimonLet's face it. Elizabeth Taylor's last marriage was all aobut selling perfume becasue it's hard to sell perfume when you're a fat old spinster.Johnny RottenMrs. Thatcher is doing for monetarism what the Boston Strangler did for
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Lockerbie apart, this has been one of the quietest silly seasons in recent years for domestic politics. Apart from the minor skirmishes caused by Alan Duncan's unfortunate gaffe and the Tory MEP Dan Hannan's foray into the debate on the future of the NHS, party leaders have, sensibly, left us alone to enjoy the recent barbecue weather and England's Ashes glory.
Sly Foodie (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
…always freaks me out whenever I see it. You see the girl in the still before you hit play? That’s a very eerie sight for me. Because it is almost exactly what I looked like at one point in high school (minus my glasses). Copyright www.slyparadox.com 2009. All rights reserved.
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
One of two productions based on novels by Muriel Spark – the other being Stellar Quines' The Girls Of Slender Means – this Assembly and Royal & Derngate co-production of the 1930s-set classic is bold and faultlessly professional.
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