Toy Story 3 is many things: heartwarming, tragic, nuanced, beautiful, and, if you stop to think about it, really quite disturbing. Not just because of all the dark ‘adult’ themes that so many critics have picked up on, but also because of the message. And yes, to forestall the chorus of objection that I’m sure [...]
Gordon Brown: Labour is the party of the middle classes. Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Today, a study conducted by Cambridge University reveals for the first time the true cost of passive non-smoking. While it has long being recognised that non-smokers have a higher than average propensity to lead sad and boring lives, the impact of such lifestyle choices upon smokers has, until now, gone largely unrecognised. The report, authored [...]
It’s the book everyone’s been talking about: ‘La Princesse et le Président’ is the racy new romantic novel by former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, 83, unashamedly modelled on his relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales. On being pressed, d’Estaing has had to clarify that he did not, in fact, at any time have an [...]
Oh, how I long for a George Carlin, Lenny Bruce or young Chris Rock for today… someone to help us question that which we are too tired to have thought about ourselves. Comedians who do not just satirise and mock the world as they find it, but offered an alternative vision as well. Our current breed, by stark contrast, sneer without care or consistency. The result: a banal hybrid of gaffs about Peter Andre and Jordan, and a reliance on swearing and foul imagery as end in itself, so as to maintain a veneer of being ‘edgy’.
Disillusioned with the state of the left in modern Britain, The Third Estate has decided to throw its considerable editorial weight behind the Conservative Party in the next General Election. Jack was on hand outside the gates of Jesus College, Cambridge for the traditional selection procedure whereby coloured smoke is sent billowing up the chimney. [...]
