Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: More Secrets and Lies, in reply to Paul Williams,
Which were what… perhaps I just have to buy and read the article.
Making misleading statements, it would strongly appear.
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Hard News: More Secrets and Lies, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And would I be wrong to suspect that Wilson and Stephenson spent many, very expensive hours with lawyers vetting every syllable and punctuation mark before the story went to press?
I gather that was very much the case.
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BTW, anyone who can find the assessments of the three prisoners apparently taken from Band e Timur (the Americans officially spell it "Band Taimore") in the Wikileaks files gets a chocolate fish from me.
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Hard News: More Secrets and Lies, in reply to andin,
I would just like to compliment Jon Stephenson. On the two times I have seen him on TV explaining his story he has been composed and knowledgeable. I thought he had explained himself very well.
Jon is an extraordinary journalist. He'd admit himself that he's not always the easiest guy for an editor to work with, so extra props to Simon Wilson for making that commitment.
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Hard News: More Secrets and Lies, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
nor should we tolerate being lied to (whether by commission or omission) by successive governments.
No. I do suspect this isn't going to be good for Goff.
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Note: I've added the name of another former Defence minister, Mark Burton, to the list of likely dissemblers, based on something I was told this morning.
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Muse: Monday Linky Love (With Added Geekery), in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
As for its sci-fi credentials, I'm with Anthony Burgess in that it makes a lot more sense if you view it through the prism of 1948 and the social upheaval and pervailing austerity of the era--although much great sci-fi probably is rooted in the present-day neuroses in some form.
I'm not sure you can call 1984 sci-fi, but I think it certainly relates to British speculative fiction's rich tradition of dystopia.
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Muse: Monday Linky Love (With Added Geekery), in reply to Lucy Stewart,
And I can confirm, for the record, that Game of Thrones is awesome.
Watched it last night, haven't read the books, not so impressed. Thought the second half was a fairly incoherent series of rutting scenes (our sons were a bit embarrassed by it). Oh well ...
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Muse: Monday Linky Love (With Added Geekery), in reply to Steve Parks,
(although only a very small faction of people who use terms like ‘Big Brother’ would have actually read the book).
Perhaps more than you think, though. I'm not sure how long it lasted, but, along with Brave New World, 1984 was a common text in 6th form English study when I was at school.
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Hard News: The Ladi is a champ, in reply to Samuel Scott,
I am really excited about this upcoming album (actually I've heard it, but I wont to OWN it...i need to own it...on expensive smelly vinyl).
As a Fleet Foxes fan, what do you make of this dubstep remix?