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t that would mean yer blues 4 oh jeremy corbyn march 2026 some things that corbyn s supporters myself included should have learnt from his leadership of the labour party a politician who puts their own beliefs and principles above relationship building is not going to be a reliable member of a collective project a politician like that may have followers but they won t have many allies not for long anyway 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 anti imperialist blogology britain cheery thoughts history pinkoes politics comments 2 february culture post 16 april 2026 15 56 in february i read or finished reginald hill a killing kindness deadheads exit lines i m still working my way through hill s dalziel and pascoe series the ingenuity of the plotting and the unillusioned bleakness of the setting keep me interested and they re a quick read what does become rather wearing over the series is the authorial political standpoint a rather cake having combination of unimpeachably liberal attitudes on one hand and worldly mockery of the delicate flowers who advocate them on the other ellie pascoe in particular is a guardian reading police hating liberal from central casting her repartee with peter ditto is less his girl friday more millie tant but hill keeps finding new angles on the characters the format or both as when a killing kindness confronts the cynical but low stakes worldliness of andy dalziel with the unapologetic evil of a serial killer deadheads for its part doesn t even seem to have a crime people die in car accidents all the time after all and anyone can fall off a ladder and if some unrelated person s path through life is smoother as a result well some people are just lucky chilling and definitely a step up exit lines is less impressive its setup involves three old men dying on the same night and the chapters are headed with last words a k a exit lines it kept me reading but did rather give the impression that hill was doing tricks to keep himself interested sarah perry death of an ordinary man there s an odd vignette about halfway through this book when some time after the death of her father in law perry goes to a reception and talks to another woman who lets slip that she has an elderly relative who doesn t have much time left perry grips her arm looks in her eye and tells her you ll be fine you think you won t know what to do but when the time comes you ll know trust me in retrospect she realises that this wasn t entirely appropriate this is a tremendously honest book focusing on things that a lot of us know about but that rarely get talked about the way the identity of a person dying both remains and is worn away the way the last few weeks and days expand into years not unlike the first days and weeks after a birth the depths of the despair that you navigate and the irrational flashes of overpowering confidence that sometimes come with it you ll be fine a valuable book seicho matsumoto tokyo express i don t know if there was a japanese golden age of crime fiction but this is from that period and in that style ticket stubs and timetables police procedural sub variety albeit with a broader streak of politics than dorothy sayers usually allowed herself a scene that s stayed with me has our detective asking his superior how they ll proceed if a certain rather senior civil servant turns out to be involved don t worry about him the superior laughs reassuringly by this he turns out to mean don t worry about him we ve got no chance of touching someone like that martin edwards ed silent nights a british library anthology of christmas themed crime stories bought as a christmas present from me as it happens but the recipient was fine about taking turns reading it it s an assortment of relatively familiar pieces and stories by now forgotten authors some of which were real discoveries marjorie bowen is an author to look out for albeit not necessarily under that name one or two did leave me unsurprised that they had been forgotten though the mystery that s solved when the detective spots a tell tale knee print in particular qntm there is no antimemetics division the first novel to have begun life on the scp site you could say it s escaped containment ho ho scp is a collaborative site dedicated to the scp foundation and the anomalous objects and entities it contains scp stands both for special containment procedures and for the foundation s motto secure contain protect building on a strand of sf dealing with memetic anomalies dangers attacks this novel proposes antimemetic anomalies entities that variously shield themselves by attacking the observer s memory propagate by spreading through observers minds or simply feed on knowledge they are mind bendingly dangerous literally and extremely difficult to contain or control for reasons that can be summed up by a line from the blurb welcome to the antimemetics division this is not your first day hard sf it ain t of course but the author very effectively builds a world and works within it my favourite works of fiction inhabit a borderland between literary fiction sf and horror a bit aickman a bit m john harrison a bit the unconsoled and this is right in that area qntm a k a sam hughes is a writer to keep an eye on uketsu strange pictures another escapee from online uketsu is the professional name of an otherwise anonymous japanese youtuber specialising in weird and surreal short films the pictures are strange but the fiction wasn t as strange as i would have liked and the book s rather short the food here s terrible and such small portions also there s a strong puzzle solving element which makes it a bit of a one shot read interesting though and decidedly different both this and tinad were christmas presents incidentally and well chosen ones i probably wouldn t have picked them up otherwise graeme macrae burnet benbecula this short book part of the darkland tales series is about a seemingly motiveless murder in a rural community it s based on a real case and its telling puts us in the head of a disturbed man although not the murderer in short if you ve read his bloody project this is quite similar it s vividly written and tells us a lot about the hard life of scottish islanders in the 19th century but i wouldn t really say i was glad to have read it adrian tchaikovsky saturation point another short book and the first thing i d read by tchaikovsky a climate change horror story in which a scientific mission not all of whose motives may be equally high minded ventures into the equatorial zone where both heat and humidity now make it impossible for humans to survive this is hard sf up to a point and engagingly done as for what s beyond that point at strategic intervals tchaikovsky rather endearingly has characters refer dismissively to ballardian bs strugatsky bs island of dr moreau bs and innsmouth bs all of which sources he cites in an afterword and without the bs also in february i watched these films the history of sound oliver hermanus 2025 coming out of this film my immediate response was to nitpick why did it go on so long and in so many different time frames after the central story was over why did lionel the central character have to be a world class classical singer as well as a folk song enthusiast if lionel was such a wonderful singer wouldn t it have been better if david a mere music student didn t also have a perfectly good voice and if lionel was going to sing david something he didn t know surely he d dig a bit deeper than the silver dagger in short i loved it josh o connor is good rather than great but paul mescal is back after hamnet to doing what he does best which is to say being still for the camera in a way that s magnetically watchable what s remarkable about the film is that the two men s clandestine love story is at its core and their song collecting expedition the singers they hear the songs they record is also at its core the central story an episode like nothing else in either man s life is vivid intense and deeply moving nouvelle vague richard linklater 2025 a lot of fun and a good film to see soon after seeing a bout de souffle a lot more fun than a bout de souffle we could also say does the seemingly impossible by making jean luc godard seem like an impatient young man who genuinely had some good ideas and also like a pretentious egotistical twerp i particularly liked the scene where the jean seberg character gets changed under her nightdress apparently godard suggested this solely because the film s producers had turned up to watch the scene being shot in the hope of getting a look at seberg topless no boobies for you today gentlemen send help sam raimi 2025 also a lot of fun although otherwise it had very little in common with nouvelle vague truly cinema is a land of contrasts it really is castaway meets misery but with a better sense of humour than either of them and a lot more gore and amy adams is great it s her film ideally it would have been called no help is coming that s what it s about from start to end but i guess negatives in titles give off bad vibes hamlet aneil karia 2025 possibly not the best production of hamlet i ve ever seen but definitely in the top two riz ahmed has spoken about being given hamlet to read by an english teacher after he complained that what they were reading wasn t relevant and being blown away by it something s wrong with the world and this guy s the only one who sees it and everyone s gaslighting him and saying everything s fine and they treat him like he s mad and maybe he is mad i m not saying that s a totally adequate reading of hamlet although it s a damn sight better than what we saw in hamnet but it s very powerful particularly when you ve got an actor as courageous as ahmed in the lead karia made some great choices in adapting it too from merging horatio into ophelia to staging the play at claudio s wedding which combined gave the country matters lines excruciating new life strongly recommended iron man 3 shane black 2013 shang chi and the ten rings destin daniel cretton 2021 background watching for the wonder man series on disney recommended or re watching in the case of iron man 3 they were both fine and shang chi did as promised have some nice martial arts wirework sequences the connection between shang chi and the rest of the mcu turned out to be rather tenuous though as the mysterious oriental coming race superbeings at its heart have as one of their superpowers remaining hidden from the world and having no contact with it whatsoever while it does explain their non appearance on the evening news this makes it hard to forge many connections between what happens to them and any other plotlines we may be aware of marvel have had this problem before more than once wakanda kamar taj afterlife and dealt with it by either a introducing imperialism or b destroying the place good luck ta lo the secret agent kleber mendonça filho 2025 is this a vivid reconstruction of everyday life under a corrupt south american dictatorship a meditation on time memory trauma death and survival a dark political thriller that gets darker as it goes on a deadpan surreal comedy in the school of chris morris or david lynch a whirlwind white knuckle ride of a movie a blast from start to end wrong answers only it s actually all five it missed out at the oscars to sentimental value which i think was the wrong call although that is a great film but it won t be forgotten it s an astonishing piece of work so farewell then february with any luck i might even get round to march before the end of april next probably some more your party stuff hélas 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 a hawk from a handsaw 6 april 2026 17 14 in which i scratch an itch that started bugging me nearly three months ago and sadly hasn t gone away the film hamnet which i did not like 1 an oscar winning performance i don t begrudge jessie buckley the best actress oscar she will no doubt be relieved to hear she was great in beast wild rose men and the lost daughter although she went wildly over the top in wicked little letters just to complicate things she was great in the bride while also going wildly over the top in two different roles three at a pinch to my mind she also went wildly over the top in hamnet but getting the oscar for that performance isn t a problem given that awards are a meaningless and b very often awarded for having been good in a bunch of stuff which she has besides the problem with the part of agnes wasn t buckley like bowlers in cricket actors need to get the length of a production where to pitch a performance in terms of pace expression irony inwardness one of the small pleasures of watching twin peaks used to be watching newly introduced actors getting the length of david lynch world while veterans like kyle mclachlan and jack nance carried on imperturbably around them jessie buckley had the length of hamnet far more so than paul mescal who was often closer to the hollow solemnity of gladiator ii than to the extraordinary still power he can bring to the right part aftersun all of us strangers a history of sound it was a big part and so was her acting if she went over the top it was as with the bride because the film needed her to but this is odd i seem to be saying that hamnet required jessie buckley to go just as crazy as the bride or wicked little letters despite those films being a camp gothic horror riff on frankenstein and a foul mouthed burlesque of village green mysteries respectively it doesn t seem like a club in which hamnet ought to belong i guess all three of them are spun out of well loved texts so there s that moreover if buckley s performance or the film was as wildly ott as my reaction to it suggests hardly anybody else seems to have noticed reviews have been respectful at worst rapturous at best not to mention that oscar there is a hint of a reservation in a lot of the reviews admittedly buckley can pull off the kind of scene that on paper could sound trite sight and sound the craft on display alone is enough to bring a tear to your eye rogerebert com it is a film that moves because of the performances which are so absorbing a five star review in the guardian even critics who were less enthusiastic about the film such as mark kermode who found it emotionally manipulative concur in praising the film s artistry great craft great performances as for the material well never mind but to my mind this gets it the wrong way round my problem with the film is that i don t think buckley s performance or the 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