Break all the rules

'Jeremy Corbyn can pretend all he likes that the Labour Party are finally moving towards backing the Liberal Democrat policy of a People's Vote, but it is clear it is still his intention to negotiate a damaging Brexit deal if he gets the keys to Number 10,' he said.  … [Read more...] about Labour turns on Corbyn over Brexit fudge: Leavers AND Remainers furious as leader backs second referendum and Remain if Tories are in charge – but does not rule out leaving the EU if HE wins a general election

'But I grew up in a council flat . . . and perhaps because of my background I never feel like I'm in a gilded cage. This job is the privilege of my life.' Sir Kim and his wife Vanessa soon settled into the private apartment in the embassy, widely regarded as the finest in Washington DC. … [Read more...] about ‘Disrespectful and wrong to our PM and my country’: Furious Hunt blasts Trump for calling May a ‘DISASTER’ and the UK ambassador a ‘wacky, very stupid guy’ in extraordinary attack as fallout from leaked memos sparks full-scale diplomatic row

Nicola, like her creator, is a bit of a tease. As part of her strategy for systematically humiliating both men in order to provoke one of them - Keith or Guy - to murder, she cons Guy out of a large amount of money, on the pretext of helping her childhood friend 'Enola Gay' to escape from war-torn Cambodia. Simultaneously, she works him up into a frenzy of lust, in what must be the most interrupted coitus in literature. Since neither she nor the reader know which of her two admirers will be the one to administer the coup de grace, Nicola is obliged to practice similar tactics on the luckless Keith, satisfying his craving for pornographic videos and flattery just enough to keep him coming back for more. … [Read more...] about Death by request

There were other matters to consider as thousands of people from surrounding villages and communities streamed into town, towing caravans, horse floats, trailers crammed with all things practical and precious. The supermarkets began selling out of water, servos between here and more distant towns ran out of petrol. It seemed prepper paranoid, but we agreed I should go out and fill up the car and do a massive shop. Just in case. … [Read more...] about Dear Australia, elegy for a summer of loss

While their parents (Aiden Gillan and Maria Doyle Kennedy) are in the process of breaking up, and their sister (Kelly Thornton), studying to be an architect, seems to have some plan to get the hell out of their war zone house, longhair-philosopher Brendan is going nowhere. At first his wisdom (with women, with record collecting) makes him seem infallible. The drop in his facade late in the film works like a minor key in a perfectly crafted pop song. Without histrionics, it’s one of the more touching scenes in a film designed to get the heart pumping from “happy-sad” songs on the soundtrack. … [Read more...] about Sing Street review – teen zero to hero in three chord wonder from Once director