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I went to see Punishment Park today as part of the ICA's Peter Watkins season. Watkins is best know for his remarkable psuedo-documentary The War Game about the after effects of a nuclear attack on Britain. Filmed for the BBC it was banned for twenty years. If you haven't seen it, you should go out and rent it immediately.

Made five years later ( Read more... )

Following on from the recent pondering about why people voted for Bush Kevin Drum has a very interesting anaylsis of the exit polls. He concludes that "moral issues" may well have been a red herring.

Adam Roberts reviews Jon Courtney Grimwood's new novel.

An astonishing revelation from Trevor Horn in Friday's Guardian: Video Killed The Radio Star ( Read more... )

Jay rings up Bob and asks him to come over to his hotel room. Bob, worried about his friend, drives over. Jay informs him he wants to kill George W Bush. He has some rather unorthodox ideas for achieving this end:I've got a huge boulder I'm working on that has a giant ball bearing in the centre of it so that it rolls whereever I tell it to. And it' ( Read more... )

To celebrate the new series of Grand Designs.

The Daily Show takes on "objectivity".

"Now for an update on the White House's ongoing effort to kill the press corps. The White House travel office signed a contract last week with an airline called Primaris to fly the press corps to Bush events. The two-month-old company has only one airplane. True ( Read more... )

ULTROCRACY PROMOTION! Giblets will not settle for promoting anything as pansy-ass as Democracy! He will not rest until every single country in the world - including countries where are no countries such as Antarctica, Atlantis, and the Moon - into Ultrocracies, democracies so ultra-democratic that the will of the people manifests itself as an ( Read more... )

Michael Moore, eh? The right hate him cos he tells the truth, the left hate him because he's not cool and he is occasionally tendatious. Tendatious? Give me a fucking break.

I wouldn't read Stupid White Men any more then I'd read Captain Corelli's Mandolin but Fahrenheit 9/11 is a film that needs to be seen. I have grown to loathe the tactics of ( Read more... )