That’s the point. There’s so much skree-ing about the whole issue in popular culture now that if it was done at all it would be a Big Thing done to Make a Point, and there would probably be blowhard media arguments about it afterwards. The fact that they don’t make all that much of a meal about it, and that the joke…

That’s the point. There’s so much skree-ing about the whole issue in popular culture now that if it was done at all it would be a Big Thing done to Make a Point, and there would probably be blowhard media arguments about it afterwards. The fact that they don’t make all that much of a meal about it, and that the joke…

G'Kar performs a fine half-turn-and-trilby-removal in 'Whatever Happened to Mr Garibaldi'…

G'Kar performs a fine half-turn-and-trilby-removal in 'Whatever Happened to Mr Garibaldi'…

I’d forgotten about the motorcycle! (I only really bother to rewatch series 2-4 very much) Interesting how they decided that Garibaldi was going to be ‘the one with 20th century interests’. It’s quite a nice SF alienating effect, that sort of thing – reminding the viewer that they’re quirky ancient history now –  and…

I’d forgotten about the motorcycle! (I only really bother to rewatch series 2-4 very much) Interesting how they decided that Garibaldi was going to be ‘the one with 20th century interests’. It’s quite a nice SF alienating effect, that sort of thing – reminding the viewer that they’re quirky ancient history now –  and…

Eh? Putney may be in Yorkshire, but it's also a well-heeled London district just south of the river…

Eh? Putney may be in Yorkshire, but it's also a well-heeled London district just south of the river…

Southpaw Grammar is surely the nadir, here, making both Kill Uncle and and Maladjusted (on which I will also claim Trouble Loves me, Papa Jack and Wide to Recieve as highlights) look like classics in comparison. Moz at the height of his ridiculous pretence that he was a lost Kray brother. Endless, directionless…

Southpaw Grammar is surely the nadir, here, making both Kill Uncle and and Maladjusted (on which I will also claim Trouble Loves me, Papa Jack and Wide to Recieve as highlights) look like classics in comparison. Moz at the height of his ridiculous pretence that he was a lost Kray brother. Endless, directionless…

They were never ‘trying to compete with Oasis’ and (unlike Oasis themselves) were quite clear that the comparison was manufactured bullshit – it was all media types in late middle age trying to rekindle the Beatles vs Stones wars of their youth so that they could get a self-satisfied ‘plus ca change…’ feeling about…

They were never ‘trying to compete with Oasis’ and (unlike Oasis themselves) were quite clear that the comparison was manufactured bullshit – it was all media types in late middle age trying to rekindle the Beatles vs Stones wars of their youth so that they could get a self-satisfied ‘plus ca change…’ feeling about…

Yeah, Hootie and the Blowfish. I vaguely remember their UK TV debut. Danny Baker, I think, doing one of those late night ‘Letterman’ style chat shows that they keep trying to make catch on over here (see: Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross) and spending half the show saying he’d discovered the best new American band ever,…

Yeah, Hootie and the Blowfish. I vaguely remember their UK TV debut. Danny Baker, I think, doing one of those late night ‘Letterman’ style chat shows that they keep trying to make catch on over here (see: Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross) and spending half the show saying he’d discovered the best new American band ever,…

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It’s not just ‘old school’ and ‘modernisers’. Before the last election I was lucky enough to find myself on a training course with somebody doing advisory work for the party central office, who said that the Tories are now about six or seven different political parties rolled into one, and this was going to cause all…

My favourite thing about party conferences – it’s become a sort of unspoken tradition that the party leader’s speech begins with ten or so minutes of light, slightly self-deprecating comedy that segues into a bit of clumsy satire at the expense of their opposing number– often (rumour has it) provided for them by an…

My favourite thing about party conferences – it’s become a sort of unspoken tradition that the party leader’s speech begins with ten or so minutes of light, slightly self-deprecating comedy that segues into a bit of clumsy satire at the expense of their opposing number– often (rumour has it) provided for them by an…

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 The choice to unquestioningly adapt a story that ignores the Vietnamese experience, expects sympathy for a US Army character responsible for a civilian massacre and treads the well-worn and offensive cliché that the biggest tragedy of the war was The Loss of American…