Sorry, probably badly put - I meant ‘deprivation’

Yep, definitely time to put this old racist prick out to pasture.

The really, really sad thing about this (apart from the strange feeling of being on the side of Megyn Kelly) is that people like him , at the current moment, never really lose in the way that they truly should.

It is so strange, but perhaps is so ubiquitous it shouldn’t be strange at all : after all, ‘evil’ as a concept is without any depth, but has enabled sections of society to imagine violent behaviour is a problem ‘out there’, only evoked by a few deviant monstrous characters lurking in the shadows, rather than a…

The BBC televised Fingersmith in 2005 with the wonderful Sally Hawkins and the always fantastic Imelda Staunton, back when I was still in my phase of absolute denial (though I had mainlined Tipping the Velvet and kept having curious dreams about Gillian Anderson), but as a series it was pretty pedestrian period-drama…

this is the most horrendous thing i’ve seen in a long time.

Of course Trump “doesn’t trust intelligence”

I find it so disturbing to think about the mindset of this attacker. Did he help her automatically, and then think , ‘easy victim’? Was he on the look out for someone in any kind of vulnerable state, and she caught his attention? But if the latter, why help her up? And if the former happens to be the case here, it’s a…

I totally agree, but I think Warren and Clinton are on difficult territory.

I agree. No thanks.

Lots of interesting stuff out there about boarding school syndrome (and the like), which apparently causes emotional detachment and unhealthy relationships:

I highly recommend watching the articulate and intelligent duo of Hitchens and Fry arguing powerfully and eloquently against any moral/ethical/charitable arguments made on behalf of the Catholic church, in this excellent debate

It’s hard to imagine him feeling any shame, sitting on his gold toilet, rubbing his tiny hands together.

Really? The Boris Johnson who described the black population of the Commonwealth countries as “flag-waving piccaninnies”, Hillary Clinton as “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital” and as editor of The Spectator allowed an article to be published which declared that “Orientals ... have larger brains and higher IQ…

““I don’t know of too many men who haven’t expressed some sort of similar sexual terms toward women, especially in their younger years,” said Voight, going on to call on Trump supporters to express their “outrage and anger” at De Niro and “all of the Republican turncoats”. Voight has long been an outspoken supporter…

I can imagine (though I’d rather not, as I do enjoy sleeping at night) a dark, sweaty man cave in Trump’s house in which the sweaty blob fish Roger Ailes convinced him this was a good idea. I don’t think it’s designed to rattle Hillary, I think it’s more about unnerving any implictly racist swing-voters that the…

I think that is what makes it much more interesting than a lot of other shows, though, precisely because it does not create a cathartic moment of moral culpability in the way that you are suggesting. I don’t think it leads us to a place in which the audience solely “blame” the central character, but rather that …

This series was absolutely incredible - dark, perverted and poignant, what more could you want?! Critics - for bloody once! - were at a loss to find another series to compare it to, in the way they *must* if the central character is female (“the new Bridget Jones!” “Sex and the city for the millenials!” etc ad…

I’m with you. Am definitely of the ‘let’s dig a big hole or find a very tall elm tree to hide in with many drug store until the zombies trundle past and by then....meh’ variety of post-apocalyptic folk (we are sadly underrepresented in films -or rather, misrepresented by screaming harpies. Running away is for fools ,…

damn *funding (not finding)