With Christmas done, Boxing ‘week’ sales in full swing and the year coming to an end, the news media think it’s wonderful to subject us to pathetic ‘year end reviews’. I ask you, who wants to remember all the stupid and squalid events of the past year when we’ve just barely put them behind us? …
Month: December 2024
THE CHILDREN’S TRAIN
The Children’s Train - 2024 Netflix movie directed by Cristina Comencini - in Italian with subtitles. In our modern context, it might be hard to comprehend how attractive communism was to vast numbers of people around the globe immediately after WWII. There was a brief window of time after the war ended and before Stalin …
THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA
Netflix - 2013: a documentary directed and produced by Molly O'Brien - My dearest darling wife maintains that there’s more to blog about than politics. The thought of a rolled eye gets me thinking I should give my loyal readers a break from political hilarity this week to have a look at a documentary …
SHOULD DEMOCRACY SURVIVE – PART ONE
'MURICANS! Are you frustrated at democratic systems that have become increasingly dysfunctional and unresponsive to the REAL problems facing the world? Tired of being regarded as STUPID by THEM? Ready to give those DEEP STATE, ELITE pinko WOKS a whack on the nose? Have you been waiting for someone with INSTANT SOLUTIONS to the most …
Richard's Left Bank 