I presume the out of date stereotypes related to the portrayal of the Welsh in Zulu. Surely they were not *all* choristers. (View Post)

I have rigged up a projector at home and am working through various unseen (by me) classics. So far, Mean Streets (1973) and To Be Or Not To Be (1942). Both deserved classics. Zulu (1964) was much be… (View Post)

People do this sort of thing more obviously in the US, since there are no visa issues. Live in Miami and commute to New York is one model I’ve seen a couple of times. Others just live way out in Verm… (View Post)

Only in the sense that New Labour was continuity Thatcherism. (View Post)

British forfeiture of industrial policy has been a 40-year disaster. For a long time it “didn’t matter” as Britain was able to rely on cheap North Sea oil, and then the boost provided by globalisatio… (View Post)