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Stephen Newton's diary of sorts

Url:	http://www.stephennewton.com
Author(s):	Stephen Newton
Language:	English
Tags:	politics, reviews, manchester
Description:	stuff I've seen, stuff I've heard and stuff I've read
Ratings	(1 Ratings)
Popularity:	3 Followers

Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning is a charming, slightly quirky little feel good movie, with the quirk being that these cleaners somehow end up cleaning up after dead people; murders, suicides, the long forgotten...more

2009-11-23

Whose Side Are They On? by Alan Pearce

This weekend Amazon invited me to review Alan Pearce’s Whose Side Are They On? the book to get the angry Daily Mail reader for Christmas, full of short stories of big government gone wrong, often i...more

2009-11-22

Alan Bennett’s On the Margin

A mid-60s television series that fell victim to the BBC’s bizarre tape recycling policy, Alan Bennett’s On the Margin is now reduced from six thirty minute episodes to just 47 minutes o...more

2009-11-20

Turner Classic Movies: What’s the point?

Okay, so it’s a rubbish photo, but you will be able to see what I’m getting at. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has a great pitch – ‘TCM celebrates landmark films of all genres from across the decades ...more

2009-11-18

Alistair Cooke’s Seasonal Letters from America

Each of these seasonal letters from Alistair Cooke is a gem. Dating from 1951 to 2003, they are now doubly impressive as they don’t just take the reader stateside, but back to another time. J...more

2009-11-18

The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum by Bronia Kita

Bronia Kita’s first novel, The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum, is a funny book in both senses. A Western told by its eponymous hero in his dying moments, the swansong is a slapstick comedy of accidents ...more

2009-11-17

2012 The Movie… so obviously going to flop

For weeks its been hard to move for posters pushing 2012, a big blockbuster, which opens tonight, that is so obviously going to flop.I’m sure it cost a fortune, yet it somehow it looks cheap. Worse...more

2009-11-13

Daily Mail has it in for Cameron’s Obama-lite photographer

David Cameron loves to imitate Barack Obama, not his politics, but the whole image thing. It’s all about rhetorical devices like, ‘A policy on Europe that people can believe in’ that don’t stand up...more

2009-11-12

Tower Block of Commons: MPs slumming it in Hull insults people on the breadline

Having once named Hull as the worst place to live in the UK, Channel 4 has sent Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell to spend a week on a grim council estate to see what effect it has on his view of poverty,...more

2009-11-12

Henry Kissinger stands firm with the Atlantic Bridge

The Atlantic Bridge, a charity dedicated to ‘the simple aim of “Strengthening the Special Relationship” exemplified by the Reagan-Thatcher partnership of the 1980s,’ receives a much needed boost to...more

2009-11-09

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