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The Big Fight

“Back in the day …” as we modern Rusters are wont to say – albeit that the period we’re referencing is so long ago now that even through our rose-tinted spectacles we virtually recall it in black and white – there used to be a London-based boxing magazine that ran a series on [...]

December 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Great Art/Renoir

None of the great artists divide opinion as much as Renoir. On one hand he is lauded as King of the Impressionists, others find him too sentimental, whilst his later works of female nudes have attracted the opprobrium of feminists for being sexual objectification. One who did not find fault was the [...]

December 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Dambusters /Channel 5

Last week Dan  Snow presented a three-part series on the World War Two raid on the dams that protected the Ruhr Valley the industrial heartland of Germany. Snow like his father Peter on election night with his swingometer is given to somewhat histrionic hand gestures. He is not a calm presenter [...]

December 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Nuremberg Trial

The 75th anniversary of The Nuremberg Trial was celebrated with a three part programme on Channel 5 in the week. It relied more on footage of the trial  than a narrator. Philippe Sands, a human rights barrister who wrote an excellent book on one of the main jurists present Eli Lauterpacht called [...]

December 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Undoing

Last Monday was the final episode of The Undoing and the big reveal was that Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant) stoves in Elves after all. I though Grace (Nicole Kidman)’s father Donald Sutherland’s Franklin was the murderer and dare I say it my ending would have been better. It goes like [...]

December 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Crown/Netflix

Largely out of curiosity I watched the first two episodes of The Crown.   I was particularly curious to see whether my recollection of events tallied with those of the series. In one event, the murder of Prince Louis Mountbatten (played by Charles Dance), they did not. I recall feeling a deep [...]

November 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Pay to view

I was relieved that the Premier league has scrapped Pay to View but not for reasons of morality. Of course the Premier League is awash with money because of their TV deals and can afford to be generous but that was not my beef. I found it impossible to sign up for West Ham v Fulham and was dreading [...]

November 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Better than I could say it, perhaps – or better from her than me?

I’m not proud – I’m always happy to admit inferiority when I see and accept it! From time to time on the pages of this organ I have waxed lyrical about the ridiculous aspects of  the “womens’ equal pay” campaign as exhibited inside organisations such at the [...]

November 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Bridge, The Undoing & Good old Poirot

The Bridge reached its finale on Saturday. The big reveal came in the penultimate episode that the murderer was the son of Freddy Holst the millionaire art collector and the murders set up as tableaux of his art works. I should have realised that my choice of murderer – the funeral director [...]

November 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Bridge and The Undoing

Ostensibly the third series of the Swedish detective drama The Bridge and the HBO production The Undoing have little in common. The first is about police detection centred round Saga Noren of the Malmö Police brilliantly played by Sonia Helin. Her directness stemming from Asbergers Syndrome [...]

November 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

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