Jeremy Corblog
New Labour leader…that’s ‘new’ Labour leader, not New Labour leader or new New Labour leader…Jeremy Corbyn took some time to appoint a Shadow Defence Secretary today. Apparently he found it...
Author Archives: Nicholas Hughes
Blog Gear: Addendum
I’m probably going to stir up a whole heap of trouble for myself in revisiting this topic, but since I posted my initial thoughts on the Jeremy Clarkson/Oisin Tymon “fracas” last week I’ve receive...
Blog Gear
Do you want to know the quickest and easiest way to start a fight on a film or TV set? Muck about with the catering. Catering is the lynch pin on which all productions hinge on. Sure, it helps to have a fabulous set, a...
Blogs of Endearment
For years I’ve been railing against the injustice in my mind that Terms of Endearment beat The Right Stuff to win the Academy Award for best movie in 1983. Sure, I’ve also railed against the injustice that T...
SET PHASERS TO BLOG
A HISTORY OF MY WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS: #4 REPLICA STAR TREK PHASER The Phaser, weapon of the future. You can stun with it. I bought this “toy” back in the 1990s and I have to say as far as children’s playthings go, it lo...
I’VE JUST HAD LUNCH
This is to illustrate the increasingly annoying trend of people using Facebook to just use memes and clickbait to speak for them instead of sharing their own ideas.
GENESIS OF THE BLOGGERS
In one of the least surprising revelations you’ll hear, yes, I am a Doctor Who fan. Recently there’s this Doctor Who tag going around the internet where fans discuss their favourite bits of the show and alth...
Afrika Blog
There’s something about the German Afrika Korps of WW2 that puts them apart from the rest of the Third Reich. They’re like Nazi-lite, low fat National Socialists, diet totalitarianism. You don’t see t...
GAME OF BLOGS
OK everyone, I’m afraid this is going to be a blog post on a niche hobby interest so all of you who visit for the film talk and to gawp at pictures of Judy Geeson, you might want to step away now… Let’s...
SCOTLAND TO GET NEW POWERS: FLIGHT, X-RAY VISION
Scotland will get the power of flight and possibly X-ray vision as part of a settlement between Westminster and Holyrood. First Minister Alex Salmond will be the first to enter a hermetically sealed chamber and be bombar...