This a great article. I recommend the British Film Institute's streaming channel, as well as MUBI for more challenging material. The French/German consortium I think behind Canal+ is also about … (View Post)

Morning PBers. An excellent article from Will Hutton on hoe Britain, unlike almost all.its peers, continues to sell off its most strategic assets, thinking thar this is the American-style free market… (View Post)

Twitter has even worse vibes. I repeatedly see an alliance of islamists and far-rightists posting literally Nazi-era , 1930's antisemitic cartoons, which are not taken down. Extreme anti-semitis… (View Post)

It has its flaws, but I find Musk-era Twitter to be far worse. There are a few gently thoughtful, literate types on BlueSky, and quite a few good amateur nature and space photographers, alongside the… (View Post)

Music from Pitbull ? (View Post)