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September 18, 2015 Uncategorized

Cooking and the internet

August 10, 2015 Uncategorized

Donnington Park services — a place between places?

June 10, 2014 Digital

Writing for dystopian robots?

Writing for the web gives prose the character of a machine. Shouldn’t we give the machine character?

July 15, 2013 Film

The museum of cinema in Turin

I somehow imagine that all museums before 1990 were cheerless, unheated places run by men in tight weave and small

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July 15, 2013 Film

Ben Hecht: the craft of the ‘anonymous’ screenwriter

Even a cursory examination of Ben Hecht suggests a whirlwind of energy. His output was one long unchecked literary rampage

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July 15, 2013 Thought

Too smooth: why aren’t there more hairy politicians?

In recent years – certainly since the Blair government – it has become the norm to examine members of parliament

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July 15, 2013 Film / Thought

Cheap and sentimental things

The word ‘cheap’ and the word ‘sentimental’ aren’t generally part of a lexicon of praise. Both might be used to

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July 15, 2013 Film

Journey to Italy: Hollywood goes Neapolitan

De Sica’s  The Bicycle Thieves  and  Umberto D  maybe among the most famous examples of Italian neo-realism, but the films

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July 15, 2013 Digital

What is a web editor?

In most forms of publishing it is a square assumption that the medium of the material should not require too

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July 15, 2013 Thought

Programmes about programmes

Some time ago at 8pm on a Saturday evening, the BBC broadcast a tribute programme to Bill Cotton, the former

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