I was, coincidently, watching this just the other day : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BO6GP9NMY "The Day Today - WAR!" (View Post)

It does keep coming back to my mind that we aren't so much entering a 'fascist' phase - but a 'clockwork orange' phase. So much cheaper. So much more British. Bit of Brian Aldiss thrown in, bit of P.… (View Post)

I sometimes watch modern documentaries and wonder if they really have outsourced the production to ChatGPT. "Drone shot, rising over a dramatic, mysterious landscape at dawn" START THE DRAM… (View Post)

There's a very slow and genteel cage-fight between him, Melvyn Bragg and Ian McKellen. Throw Brian Blessed and Tom Baker in there and it'd be a wild, if rather charming, evening. Also occurs to me, n… (View Post)

I picture him above it all. A sublime figure watching over us. A little sad. (View Post)