A Few Things

I have been deprived of t'Internet for some time now. (about a week) so have no great list of links to give (not that I usually do).

I just caught the last half of Armmando Iannuci's "Time Trumpet" and loved the video comparison of Tony Blair and David Cameron's styles - similar gestures, photo ops, tones of voice, themes. Although o'course it could have been spun out of context, I think instead it illuminated the extent of the similarities, that I hadn't noticed before.
I love the way the episode ended with a (sort of) sing-a-longa by Blair and Cameron to "Heroes" by David Bowie complied with clips from speeches the two have made. Very good. Wonder how long that took.

I am also loving Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe, the man that tells you what you need to know about the teevee industry (among sneers at adverts and other tv fare). In the first episode proper (there was a three episode pilot type thing a few months ago) Brooker talks about his reintroduction to the world of Eastenders.

"The real Eastend has got Hawksmoor churches, fashionable nightclubs and a thriving Bangladeshi community; Walford has just got Keith Miller swabbing windows with a rag on a stick."

"Jim Branning still looks like a 95 year old Thom Yorke"

Excellent.

I have been discovering more of the Smiths and I'm liking what I am hearing.
There is alight that never goes out
William it Was Really Nothing
What Difference Does it make?
How Soon is now
Handsome Devil
Hand in Glove
Vicar in a Tutu
This night has Opened my eyes
The Boy with the Thorn in his Side
Frankly Mr Shankly : - (I didn't that you wrote poetry, I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry Mr Shankly.)

In no particular order.