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book opens in new window facebook like loading by phil posted in academe everyday life just me then lost classic comments 0 may culture post 30 june 2026 18 16 in may i read or finished reginald hill bones and silence recalled to life these are the eleventh and twelfth of hill s 22 dalziel and pascoe novels which i have to admit i m finding increasingly unrewarding still past halfway now in the previous hill review i noted the presence of a character type that hill had deployed before a killer who is convinced he is acting from the best possible motives and simply can t explain why so many people end up dead around him there s a stellar example in bones and silence making his entrance by committing a murder literally before dalziel s eyes his exculpations grow gothically contorted i d never met the woman before and i wish i d never let my friend talk me into helping him murder her oh he s disappeared you say a very odd subplot centres on a very odd minor character the theatre director eileen chung she s flamboyant flirtatious and 6 3 making me wonder if hill was building up to outing her as trans and dreading what dalziel would make of that but no recalled to life for its part has a cold case with political connections for its main plot and felt refreshingly different right up till the dénouement which drops into a wearying so you thought but in fact groove incidentally making it clear why hill had populated the setup with quite so many characters i wouldn t call hill a lazy writer but i do think that he got to the doing tricks to stave off boredom stage with dalziel and pascoe quite quickly tana french the keeper this is terrific it s french s third book about former chicago police officer cal hooper who has settled in a village in western ireland and like the other two it s very much about his negotiations with the village a kind of unpredictable triple perspective shift dominates how cal looks at the village is it as it appears a peaceful rural backwater a place where anyone would be happy to retire is it simply a place where people live its inhabitants just as likely to be stupid and venal and break the law as anywhere else or is there something else here a sense of connection within the community and continuity over time a genuine rootedness which he can t necessarily understand but shouldn t ignore the working out of the plot of this one which is satisfyingly neat but still heart wrenching gives a definite answer yes no all of the above patricia highsmith the boy who followed ripley ripley under water the fourth ripley book is odd not least because it s very plot light there s a lot of incident ripley pokes more than one hornet s nest but with very little effect not much happens that wouldn t have happened anyway but if you get a kick out of the idea of tom ripley hanging out in a gay bar then dragging up by way of disguise or indeed the idea of tom ripley getting a kick out of dragging up it does have that to offer ah the queerness of ripley this book is about as far as the character ever goes just a perfectly ordinary married man who generally sleeps alone and keeps up with a lot of old friends all male and most of them gay nothing to see here ripley under water was the last novel highsmith published before she died it appeared 36 years after the talented mr ripley and 21 after ripley under ground nevertheless it s something of a return to form like the boy who this book confronts ripley with an american visitor who seems to have sought him out in this case the visitor is almost a mirror image of ripley a superficially charming but deeply malicious character with a fixed but seemingly motiveless determination to bring ripley down given that the third ripley ripley s game was also atypical an organised crime setting high levels of sheer sadistic nastiness on tom s part i think we can say that the head canonical ripley reading order goes 1 2 5 terry pratchett wyrd sisters re read in preparation for watching the stage show which was good although i was slightly surprised it wasn t more of a comedy then again once past the first couple of books the comedy of discworld is of the let s imagine something ridiculous and play it completely straight variety with incidental verbal gags malapropisms and misunderstandings dropped in every so often to keep the mood up very much a humour journalist s toolkit and one that won t necessarily catch fire on stage there are also some moral lessons courtesy of the three witches at the centre of the plot mostly concerning the power of storytelling it s fairly early pratchett though the lessons aren t hammered home and there are suggestions that the witches moral universe may not be all that consistent it s those gags that have stayed with me granny weatherwax s gnomic advice that there s many a slip between dress and drawers magrat s puzzlement at stories of witches dancing in their shifts perhaps there were too many of them to dance all at once and a magnificent running gag about the divers alarums stage direction which culminates in an audience member calling out that the witches cause shipwrecks and alarum the divers chapeau sir oh you ve got one lauren groff brawler a rather impressive collection of short stories in a tessa hadley ish mode let down by occasional lurches into a kind of introspective sententiousness which struck me as very american very emersonian anyway take the character tasked with summarising social service case histories whose colleague notices that she s taking far too long and gives her some advice she should be sharp and cold for the sake of her own well being if you re writing all that fancy prose you re going to feel all that badness in you and also for the sake of keeping the job i guess mostly 95 of the time i thought these stories were really enjoyable and really accomplished just occasionally i wished that the characters the narrator or both would get over themselves also in may i watched three films as part of the manchester international crime and justice film festival a man escaped robert bresson 1956 as a newcomer to bresson i ve got nothing much to add to the received view of this film it s slow but in a way that s focused and deliberate rather than plodding the performances verge on being emotionless but still tell a powerfully engaging story not to everyone s taste i was asked if i could find a quote for the programme that wasn t from a man and this proved something of a challenge in the end i settled for pauline kael s verdict with a tactful ellipsis replacing the italicised words bresson s hero s ascetic single minded dedication to escape is almost mystic and the fortress constitutes a world as impersonal and as isolated as kafka s the movie was shot at montluc with fanatic authenticity the photography by léonce henry burel is austerely beautiful françois leterrier a sorbonne philosophy student is the lead the music is mozart s mass in c minor all this makes it sound terribly pretentious yet sometimes even the worst ideas can be made to work it s a marvellous movie that sinking feeling bill forsyth 1979 not a comedy heist movie but a heist movie that s also a comedy it s also an odd kind of social realism and also an ungovernable outpouring of absurdism for its own sake an unruly amalgam of forms and styles which works triumphantly in its own terms and whose budget was low enough to get into the guinness book of records m fritz lang 1931 another classic film about which it s hard to find much to say the central device a compulsive child killer is put on trial by the criminal underworld whose business has been threatened by an increased police presence is superbly executed peter lorre as the killer is all too clammily believable and both he and his lawyer make some powerful arguments in his defence extraordinary cinematography of course as well as the following films close lukas dhont 2022 another film it s hard to say much about but this time for plot reasons two close friends find themselves negotiating the transition to big school a transition from one way of being a child to another in very different ways with consequences that end up being heartbreaking at one point i was strongly reminded of the quiet girl both films resound with the awful echoing realisation which we all experience at one time or another that that won t be possible now not any more not ever the christophers steven soderbergh 2025 i m generally in favour of steven soderbergh making two or more films a year particularly if it means we get to watch performances like this one from ian mckellen michaela coel is also very good the film isn t great though very stagey very much the scene about x followed by the scene about y without much more internal logic than that obsession curry barker 2025 unlike backrooms see next month a film which rather satisfyingly explained itself as it went on obsession immediately left me with the impression of a rather sketchy and uneven horror film marred by some perverse plotting and characterisation choices but it stayed in my mind and stayed and changed as it did so some of the points i initially found unsatisfactory the unevenness of nikki s initial conversion bear s weakness and timidity now seem central to the film which tells a very dark story about male fantasy and entitlement also inde navarrette s performance is extraordinary while anyone who s been close to an unhappy baby knows that big voices don t have to come from big bodies it still seems shocking and odd for basically sexist reasons to hear a really loud yell from a woman who stands five foot nothing not that yelling very loudly is all she does wuthering heights andrea arnold 2011 although emily brontë never describes heathcliff as black she certainly describes him or rather describes other people as treating him as not white to that extent james howson was probably a more appropriate casting choice than jacob elordi this version is also much longer on eighteenth century social realism than on timeless passion this spares it the more heightened passages of the recent version but it isn t entirely a good thing emily brontë s characters didn t do a lot of rutting but they were actually very big on timeless passion the first child kathy and heathcliff half of the film has some of the wonderment of a child s point of view about it and as a result works much better than the second passenger andré øvredal 2026 horror covers a lot of ground these days this film explained what it was doing as it went along then explained it again then once more for luck and it wasn t even doing very much fun but forgettable normal ben wheatley 2025 if hot fuzz was town under suspicion meets twin peaks normal is hot fuzz meets free fire or possibly meets hot fuzz meets free fire meets nobody and meets twin peaks again for good measure it s a lot of fun a straight drama with a light touch which after a certain point kicks off and then really kicks off my only disappointment was that michael smiley never turned up carnival of souls herk harvey 1962 this low budget cult oddity whose director was discouraged by its commercial failure and never made another feature is currently appearing periodically on talking pictures tv it s well worth catching like marion crane our heroine is looking to make a new start in a new town but fears her past can t be so easily abandoned she s left considerably more behind than a workplace theft though the dissociative episodes in which she suddenly becomes invisible and inaudible to everyone around her are terrifically well executed and their eventual explanation is genuinely chilling share this print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading by phil posted in 2026 in culture culture everyday life fillum friction up to my eyes comments 0 palestine action at the court of appeal 5 of 5 23 june 2026 16 29 monday the 15th of june 2026 was a bad day not only for palestine action but for the palestine solidarity movement for protest and extra parliamentary politics generally and not least for the rule of law in britain in february the high court ruled that the proscription of palestine action as a terrorist group was unlawful on monday the court of appeal heard the government s appeal against that ruling and granted the appeal almost in its entirety you can download the judgment here punctilious in its application of relevant legal arguments to the facts of the case the judgment was nevertheless dominated by an extraordinary level of deference to the executive and an equally pronounced hostility to palestine action and direct action more generally sadly this threefold combination chapter and verse legality in analysis while interpretation is steered by deference to the executive and hostility to palestine action will make this judgment extraordinarily hard to overturn even given a sympathetic court and the current supreme court emphatically is not a sympathetic court but to say that the judgment looks lawyer proof is not to say that it s beyond criticism in this series of posts i m looking at the high court s original ruling the appeal court s ruling on the policy ground did the home secretary exceed her powers the appeal court s ruling on the human rights ground was there an impermissible interference with human rights the themes and attitudes that run through the appeal court ruling where it all leaves us part 5 summing up on the plus side the appeal court declined to endorse the home secretary s attempt to use the ascription of terrorism as a get out of jail free card invoking article 17 echr as grounds for allowing infringements of articles 10 and 11 you can t claim that somebody is abusing free speech protection so as to support a terrorist group if what they re actually doing is opposing your labelling of the group as terrorist but that s where the good news ends and even this isn t all that good looked at more closely the high court had been fairly brisk in proceeding from rejecting the article 17 reference to citing the evident interferences with article 10 and 11 caused by the proscription of palestine action and from there to concluding that the proscription should be disallowed for that reason the appeal court agreed that article 17 was not applicable but then took a dramatically different approach instead of simply noting that the home secretary s case was disastrously weak the ac meticulously constructed a strong case that she might conceivably have argued and then in effect read that case into the record the effect of the ac s judgment in other words is to leave the home secretary with a much stronger case than if the ac had simply endorsed the article 17 reference so it s a strong ruling which will be hard to overturn a strong ruling and a bad one it s bad firstly for palestine i have no idea what quantifiable 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