FRIDAY WORDPLAY

There is a funny thing going on on twitter where you have to take a famous quote/song line etc and change only one letter to make a new sentence. There are some funny ones there and I have done a few myself. This is the second wordplay type post this week so I won’t have [...]

HOW TO KEEP A DYING UNION INTACT

Great little video here. It hints at best at a deep hypocrisy in the staunch defenders in the union and at worst at a deep schyzophrenia. I have featured some of the other ones on the channel before too.

WHAT SHOULD THE TITLE OF BUSH’S MEMOIRS BE?

(Article also at opednews.com) I have written a couple of times about this before but it appears the moment is finally arriving. Yes, Bush is bringing out his memoirs. If you wondered where he has been for the last few months then his publishers apparently have the answer… “Since leaving the Oval Office, President Bush [...]

GUERNICA

Today is the anniversary of the Guernica bombings where German and Italian fascist forces killed hundreds of people in the Basque town in  the first large scale aerial bombing attack in history. The story of this event is known to most people. What is less well-known is something that happened more recently. The above picture [...]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Sorry about no Saturday matinee yesterday but was having connection problems all weekend. Will have a film again next week. Instead, here is a big history in just a little diagram…

EARTH DAY

Whilst I am all in favour of the aims of Earth Day, I can’t help thinking it is another one of these things we have got back to front. You might as well have “oxygen day”. It is like Christmas when people decide to all be nice for a day and then treat other badly [...]

OCH AYE, THE NOO

There are positive and negative stereotypes for every country and usually they are just convenient ways to label people and have little grounding in fact. For example, I have spent time in Italy and I found the people to be neither lazier nor more stylish than people from other countries. Nor do they know more [...]

THE SOMALI PIRATES

A good video about the Somali pirates from the excellent Real News.

WE’RE VERY SORRY

By Rick the Pleb…

SATURDAY MATINEE 11 – McLIBEL

Excellent documentary about the extremely famous case.