Originally published on Facebook 23 March 2016. Because people don’t quite get this: if you liked my book and want to tell me so, fine. If you got it from the library, fine. If you borrowed a copy from a friend, fine. A used bookshop, fine. However, it is not necessary to tell me, at length, […]
The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner has always been a terrible idea. At its worst it’s demonstrated just how cold and unfeeling the Administration is: i.e. the “comedic” film of Dubya looking for weapons of mass destruction in his office, while actual, you know, human beings were dying by the score for that wild […]
I would prefer if responses didn’t get into tributes to, or debates on the quality of, a movie, but I keep coming up against Aaron Sorkin’s political romantic comedy, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, and in particular President Shepard’s genial response to someone stammering an apology for a name-calling rant the President walked in on: “Is it […]