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Article by William Morris and other letters on Trainspotting, Ireland, The X Files and Immigration. Download PDF

Taking advantage of what is left of my rights, I hereby serve notice of intention to join in the public discussions stirred up by President Truman's decision to send a United States ambassador to the Vatican. And if you expect me to be calm and politely restrained in my utterances, you're in for a disappointment. I was burned up about the encroachments of authoritarian clericalism long before the President's decision was announced. His latest stroke of statesmanship just added a little fuel to the flames which have been scaring my tender flesh. This is not a debate, properly speaking. From the...

Taking advantage of what is left of my rights, I hereby serve notice of intention to join in the public discussions stirred up by President Truman's decision to send a United States ambassador to the Vatican. And if you expect me to be calm and politely restrained in my utterances, you're in for a disappointment. I was burned up about the encroachments of authoritarian clericalism long before the President's decision was announced. His latest stroke of statesmanship just added a little fuel to the flames which have been scaring my tender flesh. This is not a debate, properly speaking. From the...

Taking advantage of what is left of my rights, I hereby serve notice of intention to join in the public discussions stirred up by President Truman's decision to send a United States ambassador to the Vatican. And if you expect me to be calm and politely restrained in my utterances, you're in for a disappointment. I was burned up about the encroachments of authoritarian clericalism long before the President's decision was announced. His latest stroke of statesmanship just added a little fuel to the flames which have been scaring my tender flesh. This is not a debate, properly speaking. From the...

Taking advantage of what is left of my rights, I hereby serve notice of intention to join in the public discussions stirred up by President Truman's decision to send a United States ambassador to the Vatican. And if you expect me to be calm and politely restrained in my utterances, you're in for a disappointment. I was burned up about the encroachments of authoritarian clericalism long before the President's decision was announced. His latest stroke of statesmanship just added a little fuel to the flames which have been scaring my tender flesh. This is not a debate, properly speaking. From the...

Taking advantage of what is left of my rights, I hereby serve notice of intention to join in the public discussions stirred up by President Truman's decision to send a United States ambassador to the Vatican. And if you expect me to be calm and politely restrained in my utterances, you're in for a disappointment. I was burned up about the encroachments of authoritarian clericalism long before the President's decision was announced. His latest stroke of statesmanship just added a little fuel to the flames which have been scaring my tender flesh. This is not a debate, properly speaking. From the...

Mandelson taking money for old rope :: Elaine Jones Reviews 'The Blair Revolution'. Revolutionary first :: Pablo Velasco reviews 'The Collected Works of John Reed' More than bourgeois gold-digging :: Helen Rate reviews Emma Thompson's film of 'Sense and Sensibility'. 'The poor middle class' :: Paul McAnaney reviews 'Parsons on Class' Download PDF

Boyhood is an intimate depiction of a young boy, Mason, growing up between the ages of 6 and 18, in a fatherless family struggling for money. His mother (Patricia Arquette), over the span of the film, has to juggle single-parenthood, studying for a masters and coping with a string of drunken, violent husbands. Before I went to see the film I asked someone for a briefing and was told that “nothing really happens”, “it’s too long” and “they should have made it about the sister”. But that briefing is wrong on all counts. Richard Linklater, who also made the Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before...

Reviews of Land and Freedom (Clive Bradley) and Braveheart (Paddy Dolland). Download PDF

In ancient Rome, so I read somewhere, a senator, surrounded by his henchmen and servitors, would walk with a strutting, rolling gait akin to that of a present-day sumo wrestler. It was a mark of status. To reproduce that literally in a dramatic modern portrayal of a Roman Senator - imagine a performance of Julius Caesar in which Mark Anthony, Brutus, Cassius, Caesar and the others all walk like that - could produce only hilarity. Reality has to be translated into terms intelligible to the audience. So too with the film Angela's Ashes, set in the slums of Limerick. As everyone who encounters...