Everybody who uses the internet has encountered ‘conspiraloons’ in response to whom is usally pointed abuse and mockery, or most likely non-engagement as saner users refuse to debate with the wilder fringes of the internet. One discussion board, Urban75, not unused to the presence of those convinced 9/11 was a plot hatched in the Whitehouse, […]
Critically regarded as one of the finest dramas ever to be produced by British TV, the nine episodes of Our Friends in the North span three decades, starting in 1964 and ending in 1995. It depicts the fortunes of four teenage friends from Newcastle in the north east of England – Nicky, Geordie, May and […]
Did you know that silence is copyrighted? That’s right, silence, as in, the absence of all sound. I presume you didn’t and neither did songwriter Mike Batt until the publishers of the composer John Cage threatened him with legal action for breach of copyright. The offending track was Batt’s A Minutes Silence, in which they […]
Growing up in the Essex/East London border lowlands it seemed that every young lad during the eighties and nineties adored Paul Weller. His music over the decades has reached across the world, but it found its greatest resonance around the M25 suburbs – the so-called Weller Belt; and his following here was mostly young, working […]
Tuesday June 17 saw another instalment in Havering’s long-running care home saga. John Cryer, Labour MP for Hornchurch, called a meeting for concerned relatives at Langtons hall. Also in attendance was the leader of the Conservative council Eric Munday, the controversial Conservative MP for Romford, Andrew Rosindell, and Elaine Hossack, the country’s only public law […]
