The Devil's Chutney

Just watched one of the best television shows I have seen in ages. We recorded it off BBC4. It was called Cricklewood Greats and you've got another 6 days to catch it on iPlayer. I urge you to do so. And if anybody from the beeb is reading this: it was announced as a pilot PLEASE pick it up for a series. Please please pretty please with a cherry on top. And chocolate sprinkles.

I shall end with a salute to the geeky genius of Peter Capaldi. You sir, rock.

The Blood is The Life 07-02-2012

• Sixteen Good Things The Lib Dems Have Achieved
  "this is why, despite the fact that I don’t support the government, I *do* support the Lib Dems in the government... Because we haven’t made the world perfect in only eighteen months with only nine percent of the MPs in parliament – but we’ve made it better. And that’s more than I can say about the actions of any other government party of my lifetime."
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• G. I. Joe and Sleeping Beauty
  "I don’t have terribly high standards for movies trying to cash in on my 80s nostalgia. I don’t expect five-star dining at McDonald’s, and I don’t expect brilliant cinema from G. I. Joe. But this was like ordering a Happy Meal and finding out that the “boy’s toy” is an action figure while the “girl’s toy” is a punch in the face."
  (tags: Feminism )
  
  
• Warhorse [sevenhelz]
  This is a film review that gets to the heart of what I would want to know before seeing a film: is there anything in it that would seriously piss me off? (answer in this case appears to be HELL YES)
  (tags: film )
  
  
• Demos | Blogs
  "the Constitution Unit at UCL have mooted another option. They point out that the Welfare Reform Bill is not just about cutting expenditure, but covers a wide range of reforms: changes to assessment processes, creating new benefits, and so on. As such, the Lords might reject the Common’s claim of financial privilege. They could, in fact, reject the bill in its entirety, which would delay it for a year." - I suspect this is too much to hope for.
  (tags: government )
  
  
• How 'workfare' affects you
  Again: how in cthulhu's name have we let this happen? Why are my taxes subsidising Tescos to "employ" people at less than minimum wage?
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• Charlie Brooker: When the Daily Mail calls rightwingers stupid, the result is dumbogeddon | Comment is free | The Guardian
  Charlie Brooker on the Daily Fail article I linked to the other day
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• lanning points out that Mark Gatiss is something of a pot referring to kettles
  This is NSFW but very very funny. You'll never be able to watch Spearhead From Space without giggling again. And really, I love Mark Gatiss to bits (as I'm sure most of you are aware) but this is a very valid point
  (tags: gatiss )
  
  
• Government rejects pardon request for Alan Turing
  They have to do something EVERY DAY to piss me off now, don't they? Bloody government.
  (tags: law )