From today’s Guardian. How depressing is this?

A commenter recently asked me why the political class is so willing to let everything be destroyed, when all they'd be ruling over are the ashes of the Empire. For them, however, it's not the ashes. As courtiers of the ruling class, they are protected members of society that not

3 weeks ago Laura Kuenssberg conducted a 30min softball interview with Mandelson after he was dismissed as ambassador. The headline: “Lord Mandelson says Epstein friendship was a terrible mistake.” The first 20 mins dedicated to his “experience” in the US. Disgrace to journalism.

In the week the great Hungarian film director Bela Tarr died, not a single one of his films was available to stream legitimately. Not even on bespoke art film services. Twenty years ago you could get them on DVD in a big HMV. This is not progress.

One of my fave Hollywood stars, legendary, glamorous Ida Lupino, was BOTD in 1918 & died in 1995 at 77. She starred in 59 pictures & directed 8, a woman ahead of her time, a pioneer of social-message films, bypassing the traditional studio system 2 direct films on taboo subjects

Loving all the Ida Lupino love today! #BOTD

Every month I publish a collection of my writings in print and in digital pay-what-you-feel ebook versions. This one's called The System Is Working Exactly As Intended, and features a painting of Jeffrey Epstein. There are, broadly speaking, two different types of people who are

Annie French, born in Govan on the 6th February 1872, was a Scottish illustrator and one of a group of artists known as The Glasgow Girls. Her illustrations are both ethereal and beautiful.

The Rockettes making their debut in "King of Jazz" - the 1930 film that was created in 2-part ( green and red) technicolor.

Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” was supposed to be a surrealist sci-fi noir film, but watching it now feels more like its a documentary on modern society's devolution into an utterly absurd totalitarian idiocracy.

Sadly, this...

Behind-the-scenes filming 'Taxi Driver'. Check out my 50th anniversary review for this one-of-a-kind movie: youtube.com/watch?v=th5XC8…

UK Tax paid by Jim Ratcliffe in 2025: £0 UK tax paid by immigrants in 2025: £17,000,000,000

Jim Ratcliffe is the most anti-working class figure in British society. Not de facto: consciously, actively. He attacks workers and their communities, *because* they are working class. And it surprises no one that this goes together with anti-immigrant demagoguery. Why?

If you've watched a YouTube video of me after late October 2025, it was most likely AI-generated slop, as the last interview I gave was published on October 24th and was an interview with Chris Hedges. Everything put out since is this dubious crap that often attributes false

Go cinema or go mad.

Ach well, it would be rude not to …#FTK #AbolishTheMonarchy #Yerbrotherisanonce

This is how media lies to you in real time.

🎙️Enjoyed chatting with Coll McCail and Cllr Dan Hutchison on Skotia about attacks on working class history/culture/life, why The People’s Story museum in Edinburgh & People’s Palace in Glasgow matter, and more. 🎧Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

FAT CITY, airing tonight on TCM, is nimbly adapted by Leonard Gardner from his great novel. But the real headline is director John Huston—forging ahead with his career in the grungy, naturalistic seventies—proving he can punch with the New Hollywood kids without breaking a sweat.