Television Comments: The Good Fight ; The Crown, The Queen’s Gambit. ‘Well, Mr President, the challenge that you have, is that the data you have is just wrong’ Brad Raffensberger to Trump. This week’s American top election story, the attempt to change the vote cast in Georgia, seems to be the height of President Trump’sContinue reading “Week beginning 6th January 2021”
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Week beginning 30 December, 2020
American Elections Twenty three days before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris become President and Vice President. Important dates before this momentous occasion are the Georgia runoffs on January 5th and on January 6th the House and Senate meet to count the Electoral College Votes. It seems a long time ago that the electoral college votesContinue reading “Week beginning 30 December, 2020”
Week beginning 23rd December, 2020
Reforms discussed on Chris Hayes All In on MSNBC Chris Hayes’ program on MSNBC discussing reforming the American electoral system and additional parts of the system so as to avoid the horror of the past four years is informative. A major part of the discussion centred on electoral reform – mainly the Electoral College. SomeContinue reading “Week beginning 23rd December, 2020”
Week beginning 16th December
Book reviews An Indulgence of Agatha Christies continues with the way in which women were depicted in the 1930s novels. This is a section of Part 2 Racism, Sexism and Classism in Agatha Christie. Earlier material moved to Book Reviews: Archives. Television Comments Comments on episode of The Crown. Earlier material moved to Television Comments:Continue reading “Week beginning 16th December”
Week beginning 9 December, 2020
Books: Reviews – the following material has been moved to Book Reviews: Archives, Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders and 4.50 From Paddington; and Part 1 Racism, Classism and Sexism in Agatha Christies. Television: Comments – material moved to Television Comments: Archives is American Presidential Election; and Brothers and Sisters. New material: A Country Podcast; TheContinue reading “Week beginning 9 December, 2020”
Week beginning 2 December
Book reviews: The early material related to An indulgence of Agatha Christies has been moved to Book Reviews: Archives. This includes the introduction, reviews of two books about Christie’s life and work: Laura Thompson, Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life and John Curran, Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks: Stories and Secrets of Murder in the MakingContinue reading “Week beginning 2 December”
Week beginning 25 November
Booker Prize goes to Scottish author Douglas Stuart for debut novel Shuggie Bain. Book reviews@ By arts editor Dee Jefferson. Book Reviews: Introduction to reviews of Agatha Christie novels which reflect racist, sexist and classist ideas. This introduction is based on my article Ethical Fiction: Essential? Desirable? Irrelevant? Review of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious AffairContinue reading “Week beginning 25 November”
Posts week beginning 18 November 2020
Book reviews: The Agatha Christie indulgence continues, with another train related mystery, The ABC Murders. I began these as I was indulging a long held aspiration to travel on The Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs, and was thinking about the romance and joy associated with such travel. Of course, Christie does not dwell onContinue reading “Posts week beginning 18 November 2020”
Posts week beginning November 2
This week part of the blog will begin a day early, so as to include Bob McMullan’s prediction for the 2020 American Presidential Election before the vote is counted in America. After the prediction post I have also added some of the material from his weekly reports on the election. Brilliant & Bold! Bold &Continue reading “Posts week beginning November 2”
Posts week beginning 28 October
Books reviewed this week: Patricia Highsmith, People Who Knock On The Door; Wendy Clarke What She Saw; Louise Doughty, Appletree Yard and Nicholas Coleridge, The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums, and Selective Memoirs. Television Comments this week: following Margaret Morgan’s contribution to A Country Podcast about being a script writer on A Country Practice, I relateContinue reading “Posts week beginning 28 October”
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