Meantime (1983)
Another Mike Leigh TV movie starring a young Tim Roth, this time supported by Gary Oldman in his debut, Phil Daniels and Pam Ferris.
Following the struggles of the working-class Pollock family in Thatcher-era London, Meantime...
Made in Britain (1982)
Tim Roth plays Trevor, a 16 year old Neo-Nazi skinhead who has just put a brick through his local Pakistani corner shop window and is too young to be sent to jail. He winds up in a kind of residential evaluation centre -...
This is it in a nutshell. Some crazed trans-identifying individual, who looks like a man wearing mascara, is posted on twitter screaming that it's their right to use the ladies toilet, and thousands of people pile on. We see it with the far right...
Good point. I'd forgotten about him. And it may well prove that, in a UK that could end up as broken as the US in the Great Depression, Starmer might be pragmatic and pivot towards policies that benefit those in need the most. We will see.
He's got a massive platform. He influences opinion. He had one young lad disagreeing with Starmer's acceptance of this horrible MP and he was condescending and abrupt with him. Everyone else agreed with him and he let them waffle away about how...
There are plenty of examples where a leader has purported to be a socialist 'man of the people' before coming to power but then becoming very right wing and authoritarian after being elected (Mussolini being an obvious one). But has one ever...
For the record, I understand the logic of people thinking it's all a bit of a bluff to win votes and then enact social change that benefits the majority. I just don't agree with it. And I hope it's me that's wrong.
I'll pack up and move somewhere else as well, while I'm at it, since I'm unhappy with the state of the country. Same kind of thing, yeah? Don't like it, jog on?
I'd better not have an opinion about our football team either, eh? There are others...
Listening to James O'Brien discussing Elphicke's deflection and making Starmer seem like a genius playing 5D chess feels like peak centrist dad. His fawning is nauseating, especially when he tweeted that he couldn't vote for Corbyn at the time...