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the pecking order from the film s title and the opening sequence in which sven is seen driving into the woods in the manager s posh car one knows that things must turn out badly but what will drive sven over the edge finally skarsgard s fine performance certainly keeps one gripped to the tale and the use of a recording of verdi s requiem helps build the mood so one even accepts the winged angels that enter sven s troubled mind and therefore the narrative as a portrait too of a society that has barely entered the 20th century hans alfredson s movie is a remarkable look back to another age deeply tragic in many ways but also beautiful posted in film review tagged hans alfredson maria johansson stellar skarsgard leave a comment coal and climate change britain posted by jonathanfryer on tuesday 9th march 2021 john kerry in his new guise as the biden administration s climate czar was in london yesterday at the start of a european tour to whip up support for the cop26 conference over which alok sharma will preside in glasgow later this year just 20 nations are responsible for 80 of the globe s co2 emissions which is why so much of the responsibility is on their shoulders mr kerry was complimentary about boris johnson s rhetoric on the issue but scathing about coal the marketplace has made the decision that coal is not the future he declared adding coal is the dirtiest fuel in the world yet britain is due to open its first coal mine in several years in cumbria which rather highlights its hypocrisy on the issue local politicians have said this will be a big boost for employment but there should not be a competition between jobs and the survival of the planet unless the government stops the development which it is entitled to do it will inevitably be criticised at cop26 do as i say not do as i do and this at a time when the united states has made a major reversal from the trump years and is pressuring china to live up to its commitments so will king coal win out the day or will the government show it is serious about climate change as the biggest challenge facing us this century posted in climate change tagged alok sharma boris johnson john kerry leave a comment men on international women s day posted by jonathanfryer on monday 8th march 2021 today is international women s day so surely men should shut up absolutely not to spare the event being tokenistic putting women in the spotlight just for today while men dominate the public sphere for the other 364 days in the year men should stand up and be heard on international women s day as vocal champions of true gender equality can men ever be feminists you bet they can if they recognise that women s place is everywhere alongside men of course there are cultural differences around the world but the cause of women s rights has advanced a great deal in recent years it is true that much remains to be done only in a very few countries do women make up more than a limited number of parliamentarians but the world of politics is by no means everything the work place and the domestic space are equally important in ensuring that women have a fair deal and men have a crucial role to play in this if necessary modifying their behaviour from the patriarchal norm the two sexes can learn a lot from each other but not when they are hidebound by ideas from the past i m not saying that there are no differences between men and women obviously there are but many of these are related to constructed gender rather than biological characteristics more important we need to acknowledge and celebrate real difference where it does exist and accept that by having the full contribution of both men and women in at all levels society will mean a healthier future for us all so happy international women s day everyone including the men posted in uncategorized leave a comment the new european movement chair posted by jonathanfryer on sunday 7th march 2021 there was a strong line up to be elected the new chair of the european movement britain s main pro european campaigning body true they were all white males of a certain age but between them dominic grieve andrew adonis and peter kellner had a wealth of different experience brexit may have happened alas but it is more important than ever that britain has a positive relationship with our european neighbours not just on trade especially as the johnson government and its cheerleaders in the media are determined to blame the eu for all that is wrong i watched the campaign videos that the three candidates prepared and confess that i changed my mind as a result i had thought that having a well coonected former tory mp was what the em needed now though his predecessor stephen dorrell had been that too despite defecting to the liberal democrats peter kellner has widespread experience too not least as the former head of yougov but andrew adonis has kept up the fight for britain to be european not just in the house of lords and at public meetings up and down the country but also in his columns until recently in the new european and nowadays for prospect more important he is determined to involve younger people in the campaign for a more european britain and he has an unequivocal commitment to making this a step by step march towards rejoining the eu britain should be at the heart of europe though it may take some years before the public and the two major political parties accept that that is where we should be posted in eu tagged andrew adonis dominic grieve peter kellner stephen dorrell 1 comment the nhs 1 insult posted by jonathanfryer on saturday 6th march 2021 we re a year on from the first covid death in britain though that figure has now topped 124 000 the case rate and death numbers are mercifully falling in most places and the roll out of the vaccine in the uk has been truly impressive when compared with the situation in most european countries however many people in the under funded and under staffed nhs are on their knees with exhaustion at various times over the past year we have been urged to clap for these selfless workers and both boris johnson and health secretary matt hancock have been out there taking the lead yet just what this conservative government thinks of nhs workers has been shown by the derisory recommendation of a 1 pay rise this is a real slap in the face no wonder so many nurses are disappointed and angry and the unions are threatening strike action of course this is not the final outcome a pay review body will make the ultimate decision but the government has made its recommendation clear perhaps the vaccine bounce that has been noticeable in recent opinion polls will be reversed as a result certainly the public is on the side of the nurses and doctors it is not enough to call them heroes they need to be remunerated properly so the pay review body should up the government s measly recommendation and boris johnson and matt hancock should be truly ashamed posted in health tagged boris johnson matt hancock nhs 1 comment naughty boy britain posted by jonathanfryer on friday 5th march 2021 uk prime minister boris johnson has made a successful career out of being the cheeky chappie who breaks the rules as a journalist in brussels he made up funny stories about the european union this cost him his job on at least one occasion but in the meantime a reputation had been made famously he drafted telegraph articles on both sides of the brexit argument but eventually for personal political reasons decided to hitch his horses to vote leave the result of the european referendum was close enough that this may have made all the difference in the campaign he was happy to endorse statements that had little connection with reality for example that the nhs would benefit from an extra 350 million a week if we stopped contributing to the eu and that 70 million turks were getting ready to move to britain when turkey joined the eu as a tsunami of falsehoods about the eu swept over britain taking the country out of the union after more than 40 years membership johnson has kept up the rhetoric of anti eu sentiment since becoming prime minister and he knows like former us president donald trump that his supporters are happy to believe him sadly this includes a sizable proportion of the british media and he has ensured that the government is dominated by brexiteer yes men and women but by threatening the integrity of the withdrawal agreement britain under the conservatives has shown itself to be a corrupt and untrustworthy partner twice now the uk has stated that it is ready to violate international law most recently by unilaterally extending the light touch control on goods moving from great britain to northern ireland for another six months until october the eu is understandably furious how can one deal with a country that breaks its word no wonder the european parliament has postponed its consideration of the brexit agreement in protest no matter what emphasis boris johnson and his ministers place on a joint anglo irish bid to host the world cup in 2030 rarely have the relations between dublin and london been so bad the republic of ireland is furious with britain for undermining the so called northern irish protocol which has even led to unionist paramilitary groups challenging the basis of the 1998 good friday agreement though mercifully so far without the threat of a return to violent unrest johnson and his pals are no doubt jubilant that naughty boy britain is making its presence felt on the world stage and they will get applause from the usual suspects in the press but at a time when we should be forging the closest possible new relationship with our eu27 partners despite brexit this is a strategy of fools which bodes ill for the coming months and years posted in uk politics uncategorized tagged boris johnson eu referendum good friday agreement northern ireland protocol 1 comment short stories from azerbaijan posted by jonathanfryer on thursday 25th february 2021 though v s pritchett is widely acknowledged to be the doyen of short story writing as a literary genre in britain it is particularly favoured by women it is something of a surprise therefore that only two stories included in this extensive collection of short stories from azerbaijan published in the uk by hertfordshire press are from female hands this tells us quite a lot about a society in which women writers have failed to make much impact in fact none of the writers is young either all are aged 50 or more indeed most of the works chosen are by men firmly in and of the 20th century at a time when azerbaijan was still part of the soviet union politics accordingly does not rear its head only three of the tales is set it the capital baku so this is very much about the village where men usually are men when they have not had too much vodka where the women often get knocked about yet they yearn for love from their mates the best of all in my view is elchin s the death of koschei the deathless about a prize cock who loses all his bravado after a single defeat in a cockfight though i also smiled at anar s a georgian surname in her brief introduction elizabeth white the british council representative in azerbaijan says that this anthology lets us know about the people of that country and those who lived there she is right posted in book review uncategorized tagged anar elchin elizabeth white v s pritchett 1 comment educating rita 1983 posted by jonathanfryer on tuesday 23rd february 2021 julie walters and michael caine michael caine takes top billing in this comic drama by lewis gilbert with screenplay by willy russell based on his stage play of the same name and available on bbciplayer for the next four weeks well he would wouldn t he but the real joy of this film is the performance put in by julie walters as the eponymous rita actually susan her transformation from streetwise brummie hairdresser to sophisticated participant in a summer school in english literature is appealingly pygmalionesque despite the worst efforts of her dipsomaniac open university tutor dr bryant michael caine the stately background of trinity college dublin has a nicely ironic twist but his behaviour is outrageous even for there at first in awe of him soon she sees through his weaknesses but her altruism is such that one realises that she is a thoroughly decent young woman in his drunken haze dr bryant oscillates between his midlife crisis exacerbated by failed relationships and his fascination with the new creature that has entered his world maureen lipman has an enjoyable cameo role as an ott arty landlady passionate about mahler but it is really julie walters who makes this a film to remember and cherish when he heads of australia banished for bad behaviour one has little confidence he will turn his life around but she has triumphantly posted in film review tagged julie walters lewis gilbert maureen lipman michael caine willy russell 1 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