For me, the Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman is the finest trilogy of books ever written. This December the first episode in the trilogy, ‘The Golden Compass’ (known in the UK as The Northern Lights) makes it to our cinema screens. The cast bodes well (Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, Eva Green) and they couldn’t [...]
Archive for May 22nd, 2007
May 22, 2007
POLITICS: The thin end of the wedge?
By benfrain in Personal, RantMy elder brother mailed me the following link British Army may turn to foreign bullets I find such a development extremely worrying. We are in the UK, after all, an island nation. Is it not bad enough that we source a vast percentage of our food from abroad (thanks to the shambolic way the current [...]
