Posts by Richard Llewellyn
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Gotta admit, there are some uncomfortable grey areas to the popular line of reasoning that someones competence today can and should be held accountable by their actions - or inactions - of the past.
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The Great Escape indeed.
Hope that the Wigan/Charlton/Sheffield threat to take it the 'highest court in the land' doesn't eventuate.
Fishy transfers aside, the 3 sides with least number of points deserve to go down, end of story.
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On the old chestnut of how to stop binge drinking, an interesting study in todays Guardian linked here, no real surprises, but it seems pretty sensible to me ...
http://society.guardian.co.uk/drugsandalcohol/story/0,,2077135,00.html
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And, just to avoid the flying epees and foils for the moment, I've got to say, I absolutely love 'When the spell is broken' by Richard Thompson. One of my desert island discs for sure.
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"I mean, 'Touching The Void' was an awesome documentary, but that was more the telling of a true story, and thus didn't require any proofs"
Good point. And you are right that documentaries that purport to educate rather than entertain have a higher bar to clear.
Which is a shame, because sometimes people miss the central point when not all the little details are right.
The cool movie critic James Berardinelli has written some great stuff about how the whole 'Based on a true story' movie genre sprang up to run an end game around burden of proof.
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"My beans with it though was that it only showed one side of the story"
I take your point, but a part of me wonders, does every documentary or piece of non-fiction have to pass the 'perfectly balanced/showing both sides of the argument' test?
While that migt be good for some, I think it would mean that convincing the people of anything will become a lot more difficult (and will probably gut the PR industry in a single stoke :))
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And on the rugby refereeing, Tana was fairly accurate in his weekend summary, but unfortunately SANZAR have been hoist by their own inflexibility with regards to neutral refs, at a time when Aussie ref stocks are at their lowest.
OTOH, I really get the shits with the Aussie rugby league attitude to referees, which is essentially, 'our referees are the best, therefore we won't play with anyone else'. Phooey to neutrality.
While they may be right, its a self-interested short-term attitude that doesn't help develop referees from elsewhere in the world (ask Glen Black), so Aussies always (in my mind) get an advantage in international league (one which they scarcely need).
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"So, what kind of advice do you think MPs get - and do they bother to read it? :)"
Craig - there's a whole thesis in that question, but to boil it down to a few words, 'shit-loads and depends on who's giving it' :)
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FWIW, at lunchtime today I saw a copy of Holcrofts "Reluctant Editor' at Jason Books in Lorne St Auckland.
It precedes Graceless Islander, and is his account of the NZ media scene of the time, and how he came to be editor of Listener.
Its still there - around $17.50 from memory.
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"then it's buck rogers and his gun, then it's the dart again...."
Are you sure that's not Dean Martin? :)