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Blade Runner (even had something published in a proper book on the film). Others watched repeatedly: Apocalypse Now If…. The Sweet Smell of Success (a superb piece of film noir with some of the best dialogue ever written for the screen).

The incomparable David Simon explains why he is leaving Twitter in this superb blog entry. “This is Twitter. There is no grace. None. Here in an orgy of organized disinformation and trollery, our republic has come to die. There is no teaching the fuckmooks and deplorati. Go down swinging. Use...

From a practical point of view, it is probably impossible to relinquish the notions of free-will and personal responsibility. After all, our criminal justice system is predicated on them, as are our personal relationships and what passes for order in our societies. From both a scientific and...

Fuck. That performance of ‘Careering’ on the OGWT did my head in when I first saw it.

No. It is to do with something Lynch-related you can get for free online.

Please do. There was something I wanted to tell you about in connection with Lynch that may be of interest but it is more suitable for PM.

Lynch's promotion of TM is actually quite controversial. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-high-school-quiet-time-meditation-david-lynch-bogan-20190725-72so6zr2gvganb2c54k4eq24zm-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3fMWV_-v8SB5LSp4absb7WzoyaTljq_zLIZYFahXRrozhJo94f0IKQ8DA Just been...

Definitely. I put off seeing it as I thought that it might not be all that good. Plus, Season 2 of the original series sort of petered out, so I never watched it until the end. In the end, I got half way through Season 3 and then decided to watch the whole series again, starting from Season 1...

This effigy was committed to the flames of a bonfire in Lewes on the 5th. Apologies if it has already been posted.

Pastor Alex is a wonderful parody Twitter account.

The artist Peter Blake (who did the cover of Sgt. Pepper and Paul Weller’s Stanley Road). Met him in real life and was fortunate enough to get a private tour of his studio. A truly pleasant, self-effacing person.

The weekend obviously starts here! Thanks for the heads up.

Got through 31 books so far this year. Nearly all have been non-fiction, mainly to do with religion, philosophy, ethics or economics. The best ones so far have been these: Megan Phelps-Roper Unfollow (About her upbringing in the Westboro Baptist Church) John Gray False Dawn: The Delusions of...

The problem for me is more to do with the callousness of the government’s approach, as encapsulated by Braverman’s perverse and morally repellent speech at the Tory party conference, and her use of inflammatory language like ‘invasion’, which seem designed to appeal to the very worst in us...

86% of successful Albanian asylum applications are from trafficked women. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/braverman-asylum-seekers-albania-trafficking-b2215187.html

'And then he said to me - this is honestly true - he said to me, "Well you can prove anything with facts, can't you?"' - Stewart Lee How I Escaped My Certain Fate