I'm also a remainer mild-monarchist and I entirely agree, She has made a huge contribution to national life and it feels a very sad kind of day. (View Post)

For Scottish PB'ers, the classic 1971 BBC Scotland adaptation of "Sunset Song" on BBC4 at the moment. After the revelation of a documentary on literature on primetine BBC2 with the Jam… (View Post)

Some real signs of progress on the BBC tonight - a programme about literature in primetime BBC2, with an Arena this time about James Joyce's Ulysees, which I haven't the channe doing since … (View Post)

Strangely that's something I would actually agree with her about, if that's right, and she doesn't want to make the restriction too early. Several other European countries with full le… (View Post)

Very difficult to define where one ends and the other begins, however. Brazil did relatively well under Lula, for instance, both on strong social indicators, and, broadly, on its economy. Was that so… (View Post)