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Stick It Up Your Punter – Peter Chippindale & Chris Horrie
A Hero For Our Time – Mikhail Lermontov
The Silly Season – Bernard Shrimsley
The End Of The Street – Linda Melvern
Treacherous Estate – Michael Leapman
Clean Young Englishman – John Gale
Anyone Here Been Raped And Speaks English – Edward Behr
Nobody's Fool – Harlan Coben
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Down Cemetery Road – Mick Herron
The House Of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
Tender Is The Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The English Press: A History – Jeremy Black
We Don’t Know Ourselves – Fintan O’Toole
Nobody Hurt In Small Earthquake – Michael Green
Towards The End Of The Morning – Michael Frayn
A Crooked Sixpence – Murray Sayle
Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs
The Group – Mary McCarthy
Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia – Paul Willetts
The Daughter Of Time – Josephine Tey
The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life Of Ernest Hemingway – Richard Bradford
The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
Hemingway: a biography — Mary Dearborn
The True Gen - Denis Brian
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Running With Bulls — Valerie Hemingway
The Sea — John Banville
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
The Colour — Rose Tremain
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
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Films
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Jack Reacher (2012)
A Star Is Born (1937)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Nuremberg (2025)
The Way Of The Gun (2000)
Victim (1961)
The House Of Mirth (2000)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Gentlemen (2019)
A Time To Kill (1996)
The Irishman (2019)
The Revenant (2015)
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Friday, 19 June 2026
Anyone familiar with that arch-cretin Piers Morgan, pal to everyone whose name he thinks might impress the great unwashed, especially the gullible ones? Well, he gets a side-mention here, but mainly it is about hack ingenuity and how fucking marvellous it can be. Scummy, yes, unscrupulous, yes, borderline dishonest yes, but often fucking marvellous (and I am not talking about politicians and related scumbags, i.e. lobbyists)
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Here’s a great example of how Brit newspapers operate, especially, though not exclusively, the tabloids. It this account comes from a story ...
Thursday, 18 June 2026
In which, among other things I engage in ‘puerile, pseudo-demotic posturing’ as I recount what complete nutters some higher-ups in the rag trade – newspapers, matey, not the fashion industry – often are, ah la ‘Sir’ Jack Stack
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Purely by chance, my last five posts on this ’ere blog have been two reviews of books about the newspaper industry, a review of a novel what...
Monday, 8 June 2026
An older ‘new technology’ more than 170 years ago got the newspaper industry as was, Britain’s trades union and the press barons up and running. Then, of course, even newer technology fucked up – oh, well
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As I did earlier in a previous review, I’ve decided to extract part of the original review of Linda Melvern's The End Of The Street (rev...
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
How's it going with gas prices, Donny? Oh, and inflation? Any good news? Then there’s the war in Iran? Working out OK, troops home by Christmas? Looks like you’re still making America great again, though so far only China is cheering you on – can’t trust those commie bastards!
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Goodness, look here! The gas prices in the US are up $1.32 on average since Donny’s ‘limited military adventure’ (© V. Putin, left) began at...
Monday, 1 June 2026
The fairies at the bottom of the garden assure us that the stock market is soaring and all is well! Good news, eh? Back in the real world . . .
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Here you go, from the respectable Wall Street Journal no less, so it must be true! Shame that it is more bullshit than anything you might mi...
Saturday, 30 May 2026
Piss-poor pay and an editor's conceit – I allow myself a well-earned rant. And what the fuck is happening to print circulations: from selling in the millions to just one or two now and then if the weather's good
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The following is from my first draft of a review of Michael Leapman’s examination of Fleet Street and the British national newspaper industr...
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
What is Melanie Knauss so afraid off? Might it be what here once long-time friend Amanda Ungaro knows from her past? Might well be. Collapse of the Trump regime began on April 9 when Melania opened her big mouth.
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Who is Amanda Ungaro? Like thousands around the world, but especially in the United States, I had no idea until about four day ago when one ...
Monday, 9 March 2026
Is anyone home in the White House? The lights are on but it seems empty there. Think about it - do you really want to waste American lives for nothing but an old man's fantastical pipe-dreams?
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Friday, 30 January 2026
We should tread carefully when we condemn to Hell that ‘nasty imperialist’ Rudyard Kipling who might well not be the villain we choose to make of him
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This post began as a short review of Kim, but somehow grew and grew. It is no longer a review of Kim – which I have still to write – but a ...
Monday, 26 January 2026
Me, I’m not much one for reverence – too much often does more harm than good, especially when folk insist on ‘authenticity’. Fuck ‘authenticity’
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It’s odd how an interpretation or performance of some toons can make or break that toon. And how we all vary in which interpretation or perf...
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