Monthly Archives: September 2008

You’ve seen the Ninja cat, haven’t you? You haven’t? Here you are:

Alas, there are so few of them, and they never leave their country – probably due to their love of autocrats. Tim Blair being inscrutable. Click through for the confusion.

I’d thought they would have learnt their lesson from the dwarf episode.

… then I go home alone. Janis:

William Goldman wrote some of the best screenplays – Marathon Man, Butch Cassidy – and A Bridge Too Far. He had some problems with the latter, with American audiences on the test screenings. They thought that scenes like this – … Continue reading →

“Son, if the mountain was smooth you couldn’t climb it.” Wintley Phipps was told that by an old woman from the American south. Here he talks about words written by John Newton, a slave trader before he became a Christian, … Continue reading →

I can’t really think what might have shown greater integrity for a man accused*, in his youth, of being a “nigger lover” – and be more subversive – than to make eyes damp in the Las Vegas of the 1970s … Continue reading →

This makes a refreshing change from the sort of waffle he seems to spend most of his time coming out with: Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their … Continue reading →

Christopher Hitchens: And that, I think, is another reason why so many people are reluctant to employ truthful descriptions for the emerging Afghan-Pakistan confrontation: American liberals can’t quite face the fact that if their man does win in November, and … Continue reading →

Cold: Harvesting machines have been unable to operate on the sodden land, root crops are in danger of rotting in the soil and outdoor fruit crops have largely been ruined. The National Farmers’ Union has said that a week of … Continue reading →